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MEMORIALS 



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WESTCOTT BARTON 




SOVTH WE3^ VIEW OF WES^QO^'P SHF^T^OR QHVI^GH. 



MEMORIALS 



OF 



WESTCOTT BARTON, 



IN THE 



Countp ot ©utoiir. 



BY THE 



REV. JENNER MARSHALL, M.A., 

LORD OF THE MAXOR. 




LONDON : 

JOHN RUSSELL SMITH, 

36, SOHO SQUARE. 



1870. 
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LONDON : 

y. AND J. Brawn, Printer.-, 
13, Princks Street, Little Qi^een Street, Holborj 






TO THE 

PAKISHIONERS OF WESTCOTT BARTON 

THIS ATTEMPT TO 

COLLECT THE RECORDS OP THE PAST AND PRESENT OF THE 

VILLAGE AND ITS PEOPLE, 

AND TO ELUCIDATE CERTAIN INCIDENTAL MATTERS BY A COMPILATION 

FROM AUTHENTIC WRITERS ON THEIR RESPECTIVE SUBJECTS, 

IS INSCRIBED BY 

THE AUTHOR. 



Fled are those times -when, in harmonious strains, 
The rustic poet praised his native plains ; 
No shepherds now, in smooth alternate verse, 
Their country's beauty or their nymphs' rehearse. 

Crabhe Village, Book i., line 7- 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Motto. 
Inscription. 
Preface. 
Introduction. 

Chap. I. 

Situation of the Village. — Soil of the Parish, and 

Etymology of the Name .... 1 

Chap. II. 

The Church and Ecclesiastical State, and the Church 

Bells. ....... 6 

Chap. III. 

The Wake and Feast. — St. Edward Confessor — Conse- 
cration of the Church and valuation of the Living 10 

Chap. IV. 
List of Eectors and Patrons . . . . 14 

Chap. V. 
Monuments ....... 18 

Chap. VI. 
The Parochial School ..... 21 

Chap. VII. 
Charitable Ee-[uests. — Charity Land, and Poor's Allotment 21 



11 TABLE OF CONTENTS. 

Chap. VIII. 
The Parish Registers and Officer's Books ... 25 

Chap. IX. 
The Inclosure Act and the Award ... 34 

Chap. X. 
The Manor and other Estates .... 40 

Chap. XL 

Brief Notices of the Chief Proprietors of 1867-8— The 

Names of the others and their respective Properties. 49 

Chap. XII. 
Roads and Highways .... 51 

Chap. XIIL 
The New Bridges ....." 53 

Chap. XIV. 
The Land Tax and other Property Taxes . 54 

Miscellaneous Observations. 
Family of Buswell. 
Family of Marshall. 
Appendix i, ii, iii, iv, v. vi, vii, vii, viii, ix, x. 



PREFACE. 



Upon the appearance in 1866 of Mr. Wing's Annals of the 
Bartons, I almost resolved to abandon an. intention I had 
formed, and which I was engaged in carrying out, viz., that 
of collecting Memorials of Westcott Barton. I have, how- 
ever, been induced to proceed with my plan, and I now 
submit the collection to the reader. Names of books and 
documents referred to are inserted where it is requisite, 
and a simple transcript of the language of the authorities is 
given in some places as most conducive to an accurate 
acquaintance with the subject-matter. There is much in 
common with Mr. Wing's statements, but any information 
which has been obtained primarily from ^' The Annals " is 
acknowledged by the insertion of (W. W.) in the text. 

The Author expresses his thanks to many persons who 
have contributed information for the Memorials, but espe- 
cially to the Rev. Edmund L. Lockyer, the rector, the Rev. 
Edward Marshall, of Sandford, and Henry Churchill, Esq., of 
Deddington, for permitting a free perusal of documents and 
deeds in their possession ; to the Dean and Canons of 
Christ Church for the examination of the chartularies of 
the Abbeys of Oseney and Eynsham ; to H. W. Hewlett, 
Esq., of London, and Mr. H. Turner, of Oxford, for copies 
and searches of sundry records ; and to W. Wing, Esq., of 
Steeple Aston, for the use of his Annals of the Bartons. 

It remains only to add that the illustration of the church 
is from a photograph by T. Collinson, of Oxford, kindly lent 
to be reproduced for this book by the rector of the parish. 

B 



INTRODUCTION. 



" No little village/^ says a writer in the Corntiill Magazine, 
Vol. III., p. 117, " is too small or too remote to be utterly 
worthless to itself; and by respecting its own individual 
value, it takes the surest course to become generally 
respected. Wherever a road has been cut, a tree planted, 
and smoke has climbed from the meanest cottages ; wherever 
man may have been born, have suffered, and have died, there 
is much that ought never to be buried and forgotten. The 
origin, the progress, or even the decay of such a place, its 
daily life, its dimly remembered worthies, its old traditions, 
its old songs, its hopes and its fears, its joys and its sorrows, 
are all worthy of historical preservation." 

Animated by the same spirit, I have endeavoured to collect 
those matters of Parochial interest in which all classes of our 
village have a share, and which are scattered about in 
private papers, parish documents, and public records, and 
have been handed down by word of mouth from rude 
forefathers to their more enlightened posterity. 



MEMORIALS OF WESTCOTT BARTON. 



CHAPTER L 

SITUATION OF THE VILLAGE AND ETYMOLOaY OF THE NAME. 

The Parish of Westcott Barton, in the Hundred of Wootton 
and Union of Woodstock, is intersected by one of those little 
valleys of which there are a succession between Woodstock 
and Banbury, fertilized by the rivulets Glyme or Enis, and 
Dome, and Swere, and Oke, and Sotbrook, on which have 
risen up the villages of Wykham, Barford, Worton, Sandford, 
Barton, Kiddington, Glympton, and Wootton ; it is thus in 
a district having an extremely undulated and varied surface, 
and being surrounded by a number of gentlemen's seats, with 
the woods and plantations of Blenheim, Ditchley, Kiddington, 
Glympton, Heythrop, Great Tew, North Aston, Kirtlington, 
Blechingdon, Eousham, and Tackley, is situated near and 
amidst as much pleasant scenery as is to be found ordinarily 
in any part of the County of Oxford. It lies on the turnpike 
road leading from Bicester to Enstone, about three miles 
and three-quarters from the Heyford station on the Oxford 
and Birmingham branch of the Great Western Bail way, and 
about midway between Heyford and Enstone as one journeys 
from east to west towards Chipping Norton, which is distant 
eight miles. The market town of Deddington lies six miles 
to the north, and that of Woodstock is a similar distance to 
the south. The village has a few houses forming part of the 
Liberty of Middle Barton, a hamlet belonging to the parish 
of Great or Steeple Barton, lying to the north-east, and a 
few also at the south-west extremity. All these are built on 
the right side of the turnpike road, and have most of them 

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2 MEMORIALS OF 

been encroachments thereon, while there are two isolated 
lOToiips of tenements erected on detached pieces of land 
belonging to the parish, situated in the village and liberty 
of Middle Barton. There is also one small, outlying farm 
and homestead called " Horsehay " on sandy way towards 
Dunstew ; and the rectory farm-house, with its buildings, 
has an independent position by itself on the Worton road, 
alias Herds way, towards the wood. The greater proportion 
of the cottag:es have been built near the stream called the 
Dome, which rises on Showell Farm, about three miles to 
the north of Chipping Norton, in the parish of Swerford, 
and which, after meandering through the meadows of the 
intermediate parishes, joins its waters with those of the 
Glyme at or near Hordley Farm, in the parish of Wootton. 
The stream is better known by the familiar appellation of 
"Barton Brook,'' and has been long in estimation as an Oxford- 
shire trout stream. All the superior houses, and the cottages 
for the most part, are on the northern bank of this rivulet. 
Among those on the southern are the remains of what was 
in ancient times " the Milir The premises adjoin the Mag- 
dalen College allotment of 1796, which was leased to James 
Parsons, and there may be seen in the outhouse of a cottage 
the wall for carrying the wheel and the mill-head. The 
mill-pool is cultivated as a garden and orchard, and the bed 
of the stream for supplying the water is still traceable for a 
short distance in the next meadow. The only spring now 
existing which apparently might have been intercepted for 
its water has a copious flow in ordinary seasons, but ceases 
to run in very dry summers. The inscription ^^ 1701 is 
engraved on a stone in the front wall of the cottage. There 
are three clusters of cottages on the west of the farm, near 
the church, but it may be calculated that five-sixths of the 
occupiers in the village reside in the main quarter. The 
soil of the village is chiefly stonebrash — otherwise known as 
the surface of the great oolite formation — and marked 
towards the south on the map of the Ordnance Geological 
Survey of Great Britain (No. Ixv. S.W. Banbury) as "white 
limestone, highly fossiliferous." On the north and north-east 
it begins to partake of the character of the red loam. In the 



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valley of the Dome there is a strip of alluvial pasture ; and 
a few spots in the parish are of a miscellaneous nature. 
The fossils commonly to be met with are of the marine shell- 
fish kind, the more conspicuous being Terebratula, smooth 
shell-shape stones, with a hole-mark at the end, through 
which the creature put forth its arms to lay hold of the 
object of its search ; Khynconella, streaked ditto, with a 
beak-like end ; Ostrea oyster ; Mytilus muscle ; Echinus 
urchin ; Astrea coral. The deposit thus indicates the dis- 
trict to have been in remote ages the bed of an inland sea. 

From the manifestly desirable situation for the business 
of a primitive life, and from the Norman character of archi- 
tecture yet existing in the church of known antiquity, we 
have reason for believing that this locality has been selected 
as a favourite abode and place of occupation for more than 
eight hundred years. The Dome has been, till very recent 
times, a stream flowing with a larger and more regular 
supply of water than it does at the present. 

But as artificial, as well as natural causes, have altered 
the face of the country, and humidity has been diminished 
by the cutting down of woods and the draining of uplands, 
the resources have been interrupted, and the river has dwin- 
dled down, like many others under similar circumstances, 
into a mere brook. 

There are thirty-two towns and villages in diflerent parts 
of England, called " Barton " (Brooke's Gazetteer, art. Barton). 
In Chambers' and Kees' Cyclopaedia, 1786, the word Barton 
is described as used in the west of England for the demesne 
lands of a manor, also for the manor house, and in some 
places for outhouses, fold yards, &c. Kennett, in his Paro- 
chial Antiquities, Vol. L, p. 37, says the name Berton " did 
signify a granary or storeplace of corn : as Berton by St. 
Martin s in Canterbury, the granary of the monks of St. 
Austin, and Westgate Court, nigh the same city, before 
called Berton de Westgate, and for which reason," he says, 
" I do not find this name afiixed to any principal towns, but 
to those farm and mansion houses that were in the posses- 
sion of the monks, and by them assigned to that use." " In 
many parts of England the rickyard was called ' the Barton,' 



•1 MEMnPvIALS OF 

tliat is, the inclosure for the bear, or crop which the land 
bears." (Words and Places, by Kev. Isaac Taylor, 2nd ed., 
Lond., Camb., Macmillan and Co., 1865, p. 120.) As for 
the termination ton, which was originally " tun " or " tune" 
in Verstigan's Restitution of Decayed Intelligence, p. 295, 
Lond., 1628, this reason is given why the word Towne 
came into so frequent use among us, " Our ancestors, for 
purpose of defence, would cast a ditch and a strong hedge 
about their houses, and the houses so environed about with 
tunes or hedges got the name of tunes annexed to them. 
Moreover, when necessity, by reason of wars and troubles, 
caused whole thorps — an ancient word for which we have 
now substituted villages, from the French — to be with such 
tunes environed about, these enclosed places did thereby 
take the name of Tunes, afterwards pronounced Toivnes, 
and so gave cause that all places that contained but some 
number of tenements in a nearnesse together got the name 
of Toivnes as vulgarly as we yet unto this day call them."' 
In Domesday Book it is spelt Bertone ; any difference in 
the manner of spelling between the original name and the 
entry in that book may be accounted for in this way.'" 
Y/hen the survey was made, Saxon commissioners were 
employed to ascertain the particulars of the respective 
estates and properties, and when they gave in their report 
to the Norman scribes, the latter seldom troubled them- 
selves as to the orthography of the places of which the 
account was delivered in, but they received offhand the 
information which the Saxon supplied, and characterized it 
after their own peculiar mode, purposely depraving and 
contracting the Saxon words to gratify the ambition of the 
Conqueror, whose desire was to see the French language, as 
well as the French arms, predominant in the island. A 
different cause is working in our day to the destruction of 
what remains of our original tongue, viz., the frequent and 
easy intercourse we have now established between one town 
and another, and our intermixture with foreign people, and 
foreigners associating mth ourselves. Much of the language 
of the country people is still, however, hardly intelligible to 

^ See Keniiett, Paroch. Antiq., Vol. I., p. 88, Oxford, 1818. 



WESTCOTT BARTON. O 

those who live in the metropolis and other important cities, 
and the obscure neglected hamlet will be the last stronghold 
of the Saxon tongue. 

From what has been said, we may come to the conclusion 
that this settlement must be considered as having acquired 
the name of Barton from its being originally an estate and 
residence of a lord of a manor, or if otherwise, from the 
Religious, and probably those of Oseney Abbey at Oxford, 
who had a large interest in Barton,'"' having a storeplace for 
corn here. 

Four manors seem to have grown out of the lordship of 
Barton, for there are now Barton CEde, or Sharshull, or 
Sesswells, Great or Steeple Barton, Barton Middle, and 
Barton Westcott, the subject of our record. This latter has 
been at various times differently described. Thus it is found 
to be styled, in the Bull of Pope Honorius, in the Oseney 
Chartulary, fol. 60, of the year 1221., Parva Barton ; in the 
Testa de Nevill of the date 1216—1306-7, in the reigns of 
Hen. TIL and Ed. I., referring to the Fee of William de 
Kaynes, Westcote Barton. In the Abbrev. Placit. of 2nd 
Ed. I., Edmund Count of Cornwall is found to be seized of 
a holding in West Barton. In 1292, at the Taxatio P.N., 
the name returned is Barton Parva {Little Barton). In 
1322, 16 Ed. II., the Calendar Inquis. Post Mortem has an 
entry of Bartone Magna, Manor Extent ; and in 1351-52, 
26 Ed. III., Barton Manor Extent. In 1534, 26 Hen. 
yilL, the Valor Ecclesiasticus gives it, at p. 215, as Wescot 
Barton, smd at p. 211 Litill Barton. From 1557 to the 
present time the Oxford Kegisters have the uniform entry 
of Westcote. In the Yillare, or View of the Townes of 
England, by Sir H. Spelman, a list printed in folio in 1655, 
it is entered as Westcott Barton ; and as the Act of Parlia- 
ment of 1795, for the purposes of the inclosure, has adopted 
this manner of spelling, it would seem to be the most appro- 
priate way in all our writings henceforth to make use of the 
word West with the terminal Cott. The meaning of Cot oi 
Cote at the end of the names of places is from the Saxon — a 
Cottage (Johnson's Diet.). West speaks for itself. The 

* Appendix No. 1. 



MEMORIALS OF 



site, then, here determines the distinction, and the popular 
mode would come to speak of the little habitation, with its 
rickyard and lands of the manor on the West, to be Barton 
Westcott or Westcott Barton. 



CHAPTER 11. 

THE CHURCH AND ECCLESIASTICAL STATE. 

As regards the church, Westcott Barton is in the Diocese 
and Archdeaconry of Oxford and Ruridecanal Deanery of 
Woodstock, the interior dimensions of the sacred edifice now 
bearing dedication to St. Edward, King and Confessor,* and 
consisting of tower, vdth pinnacles at the angles, nave, 
chancel, south aisle, and porch, are as follows : — 

Length and breadth of the tower which is at the West- 
end of the nave 11 feet by 7 feet 6 inches. 

Heioiit of the tower to the battlement 40 feet. 

Length of the nave to the chancel step 37 „ 6 inches. 

Breadth of ditto, to base of pillars ... 14 „ 10 „ 

Length of Chancel 21 „ 6 „ 

Breadth of ditto 12 „ 8 

Span of chancel arch 8 „ 9 „ 

Length of South aisle 36 „ 6 „ 

Breadth of ditto, from base of pillars to 

South wall 5 „ 6 „ 

Porch which has a stone seat on both sides within its walls, 
and the remains of a Stoop for holy water outside, on the 
south face of the east wall and a sundial in the gab el, dated 
1623. 

Length and breadth 6 feet by 6 feet 6 inches. 

The belfrey is approached by a door from within — the 
number of windows are seven in the church and ^ve in the 
chancel. 

There are two doors of entrance, one the " Peoples' 

* Ecton's Thesaurus, 1754. 



WESTCOTT BARTON. 7 

through the south aisle, the other the ''Rectors'' in the 
chancel. 

An account of the building is given in Parker's Architec- 
tural Guide to the Churches in the neighbourhood of Oxford, 
and it has not received any addition since the publication of 
that book in 1846. It presents specimens of the Norman/' 
Transition-Norman, and Perpendicular styles of Architecture. 
The arches of the aisle are part of the building of the twelfth 
century. The tower and later parts of the fifteenth, or be- 
ginning of the sixteenth. 

The work of restoration was effected in 1855-1856, at a 
cost of £927, of which £200 was a loan from the Public 
works Commissioners, to be repaid in twenty years by 
twenty yearly instalments for principal and interest secured 
upon the Church-rates of the parish — £300 was provided 
for the restoration of the chancel by the patron — £45 was a 
donation from the, Church Building Societies — £47 the 
amount of the offertory and collection after the re-opening 
festival services,*!- and remainder was a subscription by the 
rector and his family, his friends and neighbours. 

This Church had fallen like so many other country 
churches into a very unbeseeming state. 

The tower arch had become blocked up with a singing 
gallery and back boarding — the font had been displaced 
against the west pier of the arch which divides the nave from 
the aisle, and was found, when the repairs occasioned its re- 
moval, to have had laid upside down for its pediment the 
head stone of a coffin of the thirteenth century, which was 
supposed originally to have occupied a position under the 
arcade for a tomb in the wall of the aisle, and which is now 
set out to view as a relic in the Churchyard. — The reading 
desk faced the west, and together with the pulpit stood just 
within the nave on the south of the chancel screen. — Pews 



* A stone, bearing date iiii., is to be seen built into the tower beneath the 
eastern parapet, evidently with a view to its preservation. 

t The account of the celebration which took j)lace on the 2nd of January 
185G, was fully reported in Jackson's Oxford Journal of the 5th of that 
month. 



8 MEMORIALS OF 

there were in the chancel as well as the body of the church 
of every size and character and state of dilapidation — an 
uneven and unsightly pavement completed the meanness of 
the aspect, with a broken screen and a flat and plastered 
ceiling, and stonework defaced and mutilated yet mth suffi- 
cient indications remaining to tell of its former worthier state, 
and to be a guide to the architect in what he was required to 
do. — The work was entrusted to ]\ir. E. Street, the diocesan 
Architect, and Messrs. Franklin of Deddington, were the 
builders employed to carry the plans out. The prominent 
features of its present state are the tower recess thrown open 
to the nave ; the Norman font remounted re-adorned and 
placed immediately on the left of the door of entrance ; the 
arch in the aisle which, was thrown probably over the tomb 
of the founder, or some benefactor, displayed ; the old pulpit 
of wood refitted and put up with steps of stone in the north 
corner of the nave by the chancel arch ; the chancel furnished 
in oak and made suitable for the use of the officiating 
ministers ; the screen repaired and recolom^d in gold and 
red, and green and blue ; a uniformity of uninclosed seats 
of stained deal, a few of the original oak ones being pre- 
served in the aisle to the west end ; a pavement of black, 
red, and buff Staffordshire tiles ; and a high pitched roof of 
open timber work ; the east window of the chancel filled 
with stained glass by Hardman, representing in the centre 
the Crucifixion, and on the left side the Bearing of the Cross, 
and on the right, the Deposition ; the north and south 
windows also of the chancel ha^nug coloured glass ; the west 
window under the tower, replaced with stained glass in 1867 
by the patron's family, " In memory of Henrietta Seagrave/' 
— prepared by the Eev. H. Usher, Curate of Oddington, an 
amateur stainer of glass, who also painted the north and 
south windows of the chancel — the subjects in this window 
are the types of the Old Testament : viz., Isaac bearing the 
wood ; Moses lifting up the serpent in the wilderness — and 
Joseph at the pit's mouth. 

The communion plate belonging to the church consists of 
one chalice and cover of silver with the date 1572, inscribed 
thereon ; one chalice of silver, the gift of the rector, E. L. 



WESTCOTT BARTON. ^ 

Lockjer, 1852; one flagon, ditto; one paten, ditto; one 
laten alms dish, the gift of the rectors servants, 1864. 

The size of the churchyard is two chain from N. to S., 
and two chain from E. to W., which is consecrated ground, 
with an additional piece of four yards wide on the W., and 
four yards on the S., which is not consecrated. 

In the churchyard is to be seen the base of the ancient 
perpendicular cross with its steps ; the shaft having dis- 
appeared, it is opposite the porch, and is eleven feet distant 
from it in a direct line. 



The Church Bells. 

The Belfry is arranged for three bells, there is also a 
Priest's bell in it, of these the first, which has a piece knocked 
out of the brim, is twenty seven inches in diameter, and 
bears the inscription — J. Buswell, senior , J. Biisivell, junior, 
c: w: B. M. made me 1756. The initials C. W., are 
meant for Church Wardens ; the B. M. I conceive to stand 
for Bagley Matthew, a noted bell founder at Chacombe, near 
Banbury."^ The second bell is thirty inches in diameter, 
with the motto preceded by a cross— 

followed by three medallions, or devices, viz., a lion's face ; 
a shield bearing a bell between what were probably the three 
letters ^- w., ^' with stops much defaced by| the hammer 
and chisel, most likely of the Puritans ; and a coin. — The 
third is thirty-two inches in diameter, with the motto, &c. 

"^ Valuta Jfflaria i^ra pro nobfe. 

This bell, of the same character as the former, is broken in 
pieces, and the fragments are in the care of the rector at his 
house. These two would seem to have been made at Wo- 
kingham, or Eeading,t they are without any date upon them, 

■^ See Beesley's Banbury Note, j). 538. 

t Church Bells of Sussex, by R. D. Tyssen. — Lewes, 1864, p. 9. 



10 MEMORIALS OF 

and their position and mode of hanging does not seem to 
have been altered since they were first put np. From Mr. 
Lnkis' account,'^'' they may be taken to be of the same age 
as the tower, if not earlier, and to have escaped the spoliation 
which he mentions to have been so rife in England during 
the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, p. 50. He tells us at 
p. 24, that " it is not probable that the fuU wheel was em- 
ployed much before the year 1677, and that before that 
period bells were moved by means of a short piece of wood 
fixed at right angles to the stock, or by a half wheel which 
was in use in 1527, and is stilL to be met with in Dorset- 
shire ; at Dumchidcock, Devon ; at Westcote Barton, Oxon, 
where there are three, and at the church of St. Sa^dour's, in 
Guernsey.'' It is very seldom, he says, " that bells of the 
fifteenth century have dates upon them, but bells of the 
sixteenth century are very frequently dated,'' p. 31. 



CHAPTER III. 



WAKE FEAST — ST. EDWARD COXFESSOR — CONSECRATION OF 
THE CHURCH, AND ITS VALUATION. 

The Church wake and feast is held on the first Sunday 
after the eleventh day of October ; the calendar of our 
Prayer book marks the thirteenth as the festival of the 
translation of King Edward 1st., the day on which his rehcs 
were removed to the new shrine which Henry the third 
caused to be erected for them in Westminster Abbey ; the 
the day of consecration and dedication of the church was 
the customary yearly church festival, and Wheatly says, 
" From the days of Constantine these commemorations were 
constantly made once a year, and solemnized with great 
pomp, and confluence of people ; the solemnity usually last- 
ing eight days together ; such a custom was observed in 

* All account of Cluircli Bells, by Rev. C. Liikis, M.A., F.S.A. — J. H. 
Parker, London and Oxford, 1857. 



WESTCOTT BARTON. 11 

England till the 28tti year of K. Henry VIIL, when by a 
decree of convocation confirmed by that king, the Feast of 
Dedication was ordered to be celebrated in aU places on one 
and the same day, viz., on the first Sunday in October. 
Whether that feast be continued now in any parts of the 
kingdom I cannot tell ; as for the wakes, which are still ob- 
served in many country villages, and generally upon the next 
Sunday that follows the Saint's day whose name the church 
bears, I take them to be the remains of the old church 
holy days, which were feasts kept in memory of the saints to 
whose honour the churches were dedicated, and who were 
therefore called the patrons of the churches. For though 
all churches were dedicated to none but God, as appears by 
the grammatical construction of the word church, which sig- 
nifies nothing else but the Lord's house ; yet at their conse- 
cration they were generally distinguished by the name of 
some angel or saint ; chiefly that the people by frequently 
mentioning them, might be incited to imitate the virtues 
for which they had been eminent, and also that those Holy 
Saints themselves might by that means be kept in remembe- 
rance."''' 

St. Edward Avas the youngest of the sons of the Saxon 
King Ethelred. He was born at Islip, and brought up in 
France, and was crowned king at Winchester on Easter day 
1042, about the 40th year of his age. — His peculiarly virtuous 
character exhibited throughout a reign of twenty years ob- 
tained for him the venerable title of Saint, and with the 
adjunct of Confessor to his name, conferred upon him about 
a century after his death by Pope Alexander III., in ac- 
knowledgment of the services which he had rendered that 
foreign Potentate, he is distinguished from the two Edwards 
who preceded him as St Edward the Confessor. St. Ed- 
ward was regarded as the Patron Saint of England, till in 
the thirteenth century, St. Gleorge supplanted him in the 
affections of the people. Twenty-one churches are said to 
be dedicated in England to his name.f It is necessary here 

* Wheatley on the Common Prayer, p. 90, Oxford Ed. 1802. 
+ See Si^eed's History of England : he Calendar of the Anglican Church ; 
Oxford, 1851 ; Holy token of Old, puhlished by Chas. Mozley, London, 1849. 



12 MEMORIALS OF 

to notice that from the ancient chartulary of Eynesham Mo- 
nastery (see Appendix No. 1, fol. xxxix), the original church 
of Westcott Barton would appear to have been dedicated to 
St. Edmund, to whom fifty-five churches in this country are 
known to be dedicated f these, however, are chiefly to be 
found in Norfolk, Sufiblk, and Cambridgeshire, called East 
Anglia, of which province Edward was fifteenth king. I 
have not been able to trace out the time and occasion when 
as the patron saint of Westcott Barton he was changed for 
St. Edward ; but I conceive it was either at the consecration 
of the church in the thirteenth century, or perhaps at a later 
date, the re-opening of the church after it had been enlarged 
or partially rebuilt. St Edward having been born in the 
county of Oxford, and being a great supporter of monastic 
institutions ; the translation also of his relics in 1163, hav- 
ing given impulse to the devotions of the people, would 
probably be a more worthy object of admiration to the 
Abbot and Convent of Eynesham, to whom the advowson 
by the donation of Alexander de Barton, had come to belong, 
than the former saint, in whose history there was not anything 
striking to them of local or circumstantial interest. The con- 
secration of the church in all probability took place if it were 
not already consecrated either in 1238, 22-23, — Henry III., 
when there was "a solemn dedication of many churches in the 
diocese of Lincoln, and particularly in the county of Oxford by 
Kobert Grosthead, Bishop of Lincoln, and William Brewer, 
Bishop of Exeter,"t or in the same year as that of the adjoin- 
ing parish of Sandford, 1273, 1. 2. Ed. I.j — when the bishop 
of Cloyne, acting for the bishop of Lincoln, in whose diocese 
the county of Oxford was then comprehended, made a cir- 
cuit for the purpose of consecrating churches in these parts. 
At that time it probably too became possessed of the house 
and glebe lands, for according to Kennett, Vol. 1, p. 314, 
" No church could be legally consecrated without such al- 
lotment of house and glebe generally made by the Lord of 
the Manor, who thereby became patron of the church, other 
persons at the time of dedication often contributed small 

t Kennett, Par. Antiq.. Vol. 1, p. 312. Ed. Oxford, 1818. 
X lb. p. 395. 



WESTOOTT BARTON. 13 

portions of ground, which is the reason why, in many parishes, 
the glebe is not only distant from the manor but lies in 
remote divided portions/' The benefice is a rectory with 
cure of souls, a species of preferment conferring upon its 
owner the title of " Parson" or as it may otherwise be 
described the defender of the rights of the church in Propria 
Persona" the entire revenues of the living are thus retained 
for their original uses in him, and in this respect it differs from 
an ancient''' vicarage, as a vicar is a minister deputed to serve 
in vice rectoris, and has only a portion of the ecclesiastical 
emoluments which his superior may have assigned to him for 
his services. Thus the former has the great and small tithes, 
andthe latter generally only the small, with the glebe and house 
of residence ; the patronage of the church, or right of presenta- 
tion to the rectory upon the occurrency of a vacancy, was 
given previous to the year 1184, 30-31. Henry IL, by 
Alexander de Barton to the Abbey of Eynesham.f After the 
dissolution of that monastery, it appears again to have fallen 
by purchase into the hands of the Lord of the Manor,! and 
again to have been alienated from the manor about the year 
1600, and since that date it has frequently been transferred 
from one possessor to another ; it is now the patronage of 
the Eev. John Young Seagrave, son of the late rector S. Y. 
Seagrave. In 1292-3, 22-23 Ed. I., in the Taxatio,P. Nic. 
the value is stated to be £4 6s. 8d.§ By the Thesaurus Rer. 
EccI, by John Ecton, in 1754, it is returned as worth £7 ; 
in the King's books, and as having a certified value of £75, 
subject to a charge of 14s. for yearly tenths, and as being 
in the patronage of the Duke of Marlborough. This would 
seem to be an error ; if, however, it were for any time in his 
possession, it had been restored to the family of Welchman 
before a right of presentation occurred to his Grrace. By the 
Clergy List of 1846 (Eev. Mavor, and Thomas Coles, patrons) 
the value was sent in at £179, with a house ; and upon the 

* By an act of the last Session of the nnreformed Parliament of 1868, this 
title of Vicar has been extended to Perpetnal Curates and all other beneficed 
Clergy not being Rectors. 

t Appendix, No. i. 

+ Appendix, No. xii. 

§ Appendix, No i. 



/ 



14 MEMOEIALS OF 



same authority ; ten years later it appears to be worth 
£230 per annum. The gross rental of the rectory according 
to the Poor Rate assessment of 1868, January 1st, is settled 
at £354 6s., with a residence. The rectorial buildino^s 
formerly stood in the close to the east, bounding the 
churchyard, they were of a very inferior character. The 
house was too mean for the residence of the rector. In the 
year 1838, the rector, S. Y. Seagrave removed them to their 
present site, and at a considerable cost built a new manse, 
with offices, yards, stables, &c., and laid out the pleasure 
grounds, gardens, and plantations. 



CHAPTER lY. 

LIST OF RECTORS AND PATRONS.^ 

In the grant of the Church to Eynsham Ahhey, fol. xxxv. 
See Appendix No 1, c. 1180. Martin Pbr. Temp. Alexander 
de Barton. 

Rot. Arch, Ox. Dodsivorth MS., Yol. 107, an. xix. 
1225 Abbas de Eynesham p^ ad Eccl. de parva Barton, 
salva Thomae de Barton Capellan, vicaria sua in eadem. 

Extracts from the Lincoln Registers of Institutions, by the 
Bishop of Lincoln. Original in Latin. Harl. MS. Brit. 
Mus. 6950 — 6954. Barton Parva. 

1228 Walter de St. Edmund, Subdeacon, presented to the 
Church of Little Barton (because Alexander, the last 
Rector, received of Benefices with the cure of souls) 
by the Abbot and Convent of E}Tiesham. 

1232 Richard de Eston, Subdeacon, presented to the Church 
of Little Barton by the Abbot and Convent of Eyne- 
sham. 

1250 Master William de Poumeray, Subdeacon, presented 
to the Church of Little Berton by the Abbot and 
Convent of Eynesham. 



WESTCOTT BARTON. ^ 15 

1267 16 Kal. Jan. Robert de la Pomerey, Subdeacon, pre- 
sented by the Abbot and Convent of Eynesham to 
the Church of Little Barton, vacant by the death of 
Master William de Pomerey. 

1299 8 Cal. Augt. Nicholas de Clanefield Capellan. pre- 
sented to the Church of Little Berton by the Abbot 
and Convent of Eynesham, vacant by the death of 
Robt. de la Pomerey. 

1314 15 Cal. Apr. William de Aynho presented by the 
Abbot and Convent of Eynesham, vacant by the 
death of Nicholas. 

1324 11 Kal. Jun. William de Eynho, Rector of Barton 
Parva, of the Patronage of the Abbot and Convent of 
Eynesham, exchanged with WiUiam Welymot, Vicar 
of Hornden, London diocese. 

1332 17 Kal. Mai. Peter de Barton, Clerk, presented by 
Brother John Abbot and the Convent of Eynesham 
to the Church of Barton, vacant by the death of Sir 
Alan de Bolewell. 

Additional from the Rolls in the British Museum. 

1504 20 August. Master Thomas Halle, M.A, Priest, pre- 
sented by the Abbot and Convent of Eynesham to 
the Church of Westcot Barton, otherwise called Little 
Barton, by the death of Master Richard Smith. Reg. 
William Smyth, Bp. of Lincoln. 

1513 April 3. Sir Robert Fenton, Chaplain, presented by 
the Abbot and Convent of Eynesham to the Church 
of Westcote, otherwise Little Barton, by the death of 
Master Thomas Halle. Reg. William Smyth. 

From the Valer Ecclesiasticus. 
1534 Drugonus Fever, Rector. 

Institutions from the Registers of the Bishop of Oxford. — 
Westcote Barton. 

1557 Aug. 13. William Webb, presented by William Rayns- 
ford, of WyUcot. 

c 



16 MEMORIALS OF 

1566 July 6. William Cowper, presented by John Cupper 
on the death of William Webb. 

1572 June 14. John Polly.^^ 

1584 Sept. 13. Eichard Gregson.t 

1640 Sept. 5. Thomas Belcher, presented by William Bel- 
cher, sen., of Steeple Aston, yeoman. 

1680 Oct. 12. Edward Cockson, M.A., presented by Henry 
Cockson, Clerk, on the death of Thomas Belcher. 

1712 May 20. William Welchman, M. A., presented by John 
Welchman, of Dodford, Gent., on the death of Edward 
Cockson. 

1749 Oct. 26. John Blake, M.A., presented by John Welch- 
man, of Brackley, on the death of William Welchman. 

1760 June 6. John Seagrave, B.A., presented by Constance 
and William Welchman and Samuel Seagrave on the 
cession of John Blake. 

1761 May 20. William Farebrother, M.A.., presented by 
Edward Seagrave on the death of John Seagrave. 

1763 Sept. 21. Edward Seagrave, MA., presented by John 
Welchman and Susannah Seagrave on the cession of 
William Farebrother. 

1805 Dec. 12. Edward Seagrave, BA., presented on the 
death of Edward Seagrave, M.A. 

1813 May 6. John Seagrave, presented by William Mavor 
and others on the death of Edward Seagrave. 

1836 June 7. Samuel Young Seagrave, presented by him- 
self on the death of John Seagrave. 

1852 March 3. Edmund Leopold Lockyer, presented by 
Henrietta Segrave, executrix of the will of Samuel 
Young Segrave on the death of Samuel Young Sea- 
grave. 



* t These two names are not found in the BishojD's Eegisters, but are sup- 
plied from a volume in the Kecord Office containing the names of persons com- 
pounding for first fruits, vol. i., 1556 — 1660, in which also is seen the entry of 
William Cupper, 1556, Oct, 31, who is doubtless identical with rector William 
Cowjj (abbrev.), both on account of a connexion which might not unnaturally 
be looked for in such cases between the patron and presentee, and the time 
which had just elapsed for the x^ayment into the exchequer of the first fruits, 
which was required to be made within three months after the induction. He 
is also the same with William Cows, mentioned in the Annals, p. 33. 



WESTCOTT BARTON. 17 

Richard Gregson was Parson of Westcott Barton for 
fifty -six years. His handwriting in the Parish Register for 
so long a period displays a steadiness and uniformity of 
character much to be admired. His successor, Thomas 
Belcher, was one of those high principled clergy who in 
the time of the rebellion " endured a great fight of afflic- 
tions, and took joyfully the spoiling of their goods, had 
trial of cruel mockings — yea, moreover, of bonds and im- 
prisonments, and wandered about, being destitute, afflicted, 
tormented,^^ preferring rather to sacrifice all earthly advan- 
tages than break their loyalty and faith to " Church and 
King" He is thus spoken of in Walker's Sufierings of the 
Clergy, foL, Lond., 1714, Part, ii., p. 207 :— 
" Belchiere — Barton. 

*^ He was succeeded by one Bo wen, who used him very 
ill. For he not only seized the corn in the field, which was 
Mr. Belchiere's beyond all question, but refused also to pay 
him the fifths. Notwithstanding which, he hath been since 
canonized in the Bartholomew Legend. Mr. Belchiere was 
also driven out of the parish, and not permitted to keep a 
school for his subsistance." 

This notice affords an explanation of the entry given in 
p. 26 among the extracts from the Parish Eegister books of 
the baptism of " Peter, the son of John Bo wen, minister, and 
Elizabeth, his wife.^^ Mr. Bo wen, who had been put irregu- 
larly into the living, upon the restoration, " when the King 
did enjoy his own again," and the passing of the Act of 
Uniformity in 1662, was removed to make way once more 
for the rightful minister, Thomas Belcher. Bowen does not 
appear to have been a person of any note ; his name is 
entered without remark in " The Account of the Ministers 
who were Ejected or Silenced after the Eestoration in 1660 
by or before the Act of Uniformity, printed in the 2nd vol. 
of the 2nd Ed., 1713, of Dr. Calamy's abridgment of Mr. 
Baxter's History of his Life and Times." 

Edward Cochson, M.A., Eector of Westcott Barton, Ox- 
fordshire, was the author of sundry treatises against the 
Quakers, one of which is entitled — 

CI 2 



18 MEMORIALS OF 

** The Serpent's Head Broken ; and the grand design 
against the true Spirit, and to destroy the true 
Cluistian religion in erecting Quakerism, discovered. 
Being a vindication of Quakerism dissected and laid 
open against the frivolous, idle, and causeless cavils 
of John Whiting, a principal pillar of that Anti- 
christian, heretical, and diabolical sect." — 8vo, Lond., 
1708, pamphlet, 280, Bodl. Lib. Cat. 



CHAPTER V. 

MONUMENTS. 

I HAVE not information of more than two monuments, 
which, with the exception of the arched tomb of the 13th 
century in the wall of the south aisle, and of those which, 
with it, were noticed by Dr. Eawhnson, c. 1720, have been 
erected within the church. The first — the inscription on 
which is given below — is a mural tablet in black marble, 
three feet and six inches in height by two feet in width, 
surmounted by the crest and coat of arms of the family, 
engraved and painted with its metals and colours. It is 
now placed against the south wall in the tower ; its original 
site was on the wall of the south aisle, to the east of the 
door, and its removal to its present situation was effected 
during the repairs of 1856. The other was also a mural 
tablet of black marble, and occupied a position on the north 
wall, near where the pulpit now is. This was removed at 
the same time as the former, and is supposed to have been 
laid in its entirety beneath the pavement just below where 
it had been previously put up. It was to the memory of an 
infant of the Taylor family, who owned the " Park Place '' 
estate. The entry of the burial is thus made in the parish 
register — " Sarah, the daughter of William Taylor, Gent., of 
Charlbury, Dec. 1st, 1746.'' The tiles of memorial in the 
chancel, on black marble, six inches square, one inscribed — 



WESTCOTT BARTON. 19 

t Thomas Belcher, Eector, 1680; the other, f Edward 
Cockson, Eector, 1711, are also of the date of the repairs of 
1856. The original stones were deposited under the new 
pavement. Others, over the graves of those buried in the 
chancel or in the church, have disappeared beyond the 
memory of any living inhabitant of Westcott Barton. In 
the churchyard, on the south of the chancel, is an ancient 
altar tomb of the 1 4th century, six feet six inches in length 
by two feet nine inches in width, with quatrefoil panelling 
at the ends, the sides being of modern ashlar work, plain. 
Upon the slab is a recess, two feet six inches in length, from 
which it is evident a brass plate of a figure, with an inscrip- 
tion, has been carried away. There was a similar one about 
five feet further to the west, the upper portion of which, 
being in ruins in 1856, was removed, and the gravel path- 
way was made to go over the base and plinth, which remain 
in situ under the surface. There is not any other tomb 
calling for particular notice. Till within the last few years, 
the gravestones were of the ordinary debased character, not 
bearing upon them any specially Christian emblems. A 
few have lately been now introduced more demonstrative of 
the great truths of Christianity. The earliest stones of 
memorial are to the memory of members of the families of 
Buswell, Bathe, Steward, Castle, Evans, Martin, HoUis, 
Dandridge, Hall, Coal or Coles, Wells, Lankford, Parsons, 
Gibberd, which are all here inserted in order as they 
are buried. The first dates back no farther than they 
169.9. In the present century there are stones bearing 
the names of West, Chilton, Crook, Jarvis, Gardner, Seagrave, 
Manning, Colegrove, Salmon, Knibbs, Marshall : — 

In Memory of 

John Buswell, Gent., 

Who departed this Life 

Sept. 11th, 1768, Aged 71 Years. 

Also 

Of Elizabeth, wife of 

Mr. John Buswell, 

Who departed this Life 

June 23rd, 1767, 

Aged 69 Years. 



20 MEMORIALS OF 

Tho coat of arms on the monument is — Argent five fusils 
Gules in Fess between tkree Bears heads, erased Gules, 
muzzled Or. The arms impaled are those granted to the 
name of Gardner, of Stoke Ash, Co. Suffolk (Encyc. Herald, 
Burke). For a crest, a Bears Head, as in the coat. 

Dr. Eawlinson visited this parish in the earlier part of the 
last century, and the following is recorded in Vol. II. p. 213 
of his manuscript collections for Oxfordshire, preserved in 
the Bodleian Library : — 

WESTGOTE BARTON. 

In the chancel, on a white freestone gravestone, in capitals, is this 
inscription — 

HIC JACET MATTH^US WEIGHT 
MEDICUS ET CHIRURGUS OMNI 
VTRTUTE ET PIETATE EGREGIUS 

uxoRi (dum vivebat) CHARISSIMUS 

FILIIS RELTCTIS VICIMIS ADMODUM 
BENIGNUS AMICORUM DESIDERIUM. 
ET DOLOR OSSA EJUS HIC 
TENET SARCOPHAGUS ANIMA CCELIS 
HABITAT 
NATUS FUIT MAR. 18 

A.D. 1625 

OBIIT DECEMBRIS 18 

A.D. 1674. 

Cn another, near and like the former, in capitals, is this inscrij>- 
tion — 

HERE LIETH THE BODY 

OF ELIZABETH LATE 

WIFE OF MATTHEW WRIGHT 

WHO DECEASED 

MARCH 19tH A.D. 

1672 ^TAT SU^ 42. 

Tn one of the north windows of the body of the church — 

©rate pro ana Si^ilPm ^t'kml)... 
^rmg: ut pro ana ^ngntti^ ui: qn^. 

In another of the north windows — 



ana %of){^ iSallofo 
3)oi)arua-: fju^. 
<^ca iWargertta. 



On the south side is an ancient arch. 



WESTCOTT BARTON. 21 

CHAPTEE VI. 

PAROCHIAL SCHOOL. 

A SCHOOL has existed here for about forty years. It was 
first established under the private management of Mr. 
Anthony Jepson, who conducted it for a period of twenty- 
nine years. In 1836 it became transferred into a week-day 
and Sunday school, under the patronage and support of the 
Eector, Eev. S. Y. Seagrave. Master Jepson was succeeded 
in his office in 1852 by Miss Thompson, who was appointed 
as teacher by the Eev. Edmund L. Lockyer. She died in 
1861, and Miss McColl, the present schoolmistress, was 
chosen to supply her place. It is a mixed school, and is 
held in a cottage, which is rented by the rector for the 
purpose. The expenses attending it are met by a small 
weekly payment on the part of the children, by private 
subscriptions, and by a special collection at the church 
offertory at Christmas. The ages of the scholars on the 
1st of January, 1868, varied from two years to ten. 



CHAPTEE VII. 

CHARITABLE BEQUESTS AND CHARITY LAND. 

A TABLE of benefactions, of which the following is a copy, 
hung up formerly within the church : — 

Mr. Norwood, long since an inhabitant of Westcott 
Barton, bequeathed a legacy of ten pounds to the poor of 
the said parish, the interest thereof to be distributed yearly 
at Christmas. 

Mr. Ford, many years since an inhabitant of Westcott 
Barton, bequeathed also a legacy of ten pounds to the poor 



22 MEMORIALS OF 

of the said parish, the interest thereof to be distributed 
yearly at Easter in bread. 

Mr. Edmund Busivell, of Westcott Barton, bequeathed 
five pounds, the interest to be applied as above. 

Mr. Robert Buswell, an inhabitant of Westcott Barton, 
who died August 5th, 1703, bequeathed also a legacy of 
ten pounds to the poor of the said parish, the interest 
thereof to be distributed yearly — half at Easter, half at 
Christmas — in bread. 

Mr. John Buswell, of North Aston, who died Jan. 14, 
1725, bequeathed also a legacy of ^yq pounds to the poor 
of the said parish, the interest thereof to be distributed at 
Christmas in bread. 

Mr. Robert Buswell, jun., an inhabitant of Westcott 
Barton, son of the above Eobert Buswell, who died Jan. 30, 
1 739, bequeathed also a legacy of ten pounds to the poor of 
the said parish, the interest thereof to be distributed yearly 
at Christmas and Easter in money or bread. 

The ground called the Ham'' in Middle Barton was pur- 
chased with the above sums for the use of the poor of 
Westcott Barton for ever. 

The deed of conveyance of the land, consisting of one 
acre or thereabouts, in trust for the overseers, is dated 13th 
and 14th of April, 1750 It bears an indorsement that " the 
purchase-money mentioned in the within written indenture 
was given to the poor of Westcott Barton by the several 
persons mentioned. The produce thereof to be distributed to 
the poor of Westcott Barton as is in the several wills of the 
above-named persons, reference being thereunto had, may 
appear e." 

The articles of agreement for the sale and purchase of the 
freehold are preserved with the ^nritings. 

An account of this charity may be seen in the report of 
the Commissioners for Inquiring Concerning Charities in 
1824 and 1825, and ordered by the House of Commons to be 
printed on the 26th of May, 1825. 

* This land, called in tlie award the " Holm Meadow," is charged under the 
Act of Inclosure with two half-yearly payments to the Duke of Marlborough, 
owner of the tithes of Middle Barton, amounting in the whole to two shillings 
a year. 



WESTCOTT BARTON. 23 

The close is therein stated to be let to Edward Townsend, 
as yearly tenant, at the rent of four pounds, which is laid 
out in the purchase of bread, and distributed among the 
poor at Christmas and Easter. On the last occasion, at that 
date, there were forty-one families who partook of it, each 
having one loaf. 

It is only necessary to add that the land is let now 
(Easter, 1868) to Thomas Stockford for three years, at the 
yearly rent, payable in advance, of four pounds j&fteen shil- 
lings ; and at the last distribution this enabled the trustees 
to give two four-pound loaves to thirty-five families. 

The Poor's Allotment for Fuel. 

The origin of this charity is given in the extracts from 
the Inclosure Award. The Westcott Barton portion appears 
to have been set out, and the rent distributed in accord- 
ance with the terms of the Act of Parliament down to 
the year 1835, from which date to the year 1850 much 
irregularity and mismanagement in the mode of letting 
this plot was found to be going on. When the Eev. 
Edmund L. Lockyer succeeded to the rectory, and became 
consequently a trustee, an inquiry was instituted, which 
resulted in an opportune reformation, and a plan being 
adopted more in accordance with the due execution of 
the trust ; and it was arranged to let the land to the 
poor of the parish in the first instance, if such were found 
willing to take it, in quantities not exceeding one quarter 
of an acre, and at a rent amounting to seven shillings and 
sixpence the lot, the rents at the end of the year to be 
spent in the purchase of coal, which should be equally dis- 
tributed at the cottages in Westcott Barton, the tenants of 
which had been one clear year in occupation of the premises. 
By this means the poor were supposed to obtain a double 
advantage : not only the rent as landlords, but the tenants' 
profits also. The rent of the land at the last audit (1868) 
enabled the trustees to effect a distribution of eight hundred- 
weight of coal to each cottage entitled to receive it. The 
management of the trust has of late years been conducted 



24 MEMORIALS OF 

by the rector, in conjunction with the parish officers, a 
mode of proceeding considered permissible under the Statute 
2 Will. IV., ch. 42, dated 1st June, 1832. 

An application having now been made to the Charity 
Commissioners of England and Wales, with reference to the 
appointment of new trustees in the place of the original 
ones deceased, a scheme has been furnished which, bearing 
date June the 15th, 1869, is to rule the charity, vesting the 
real property of the same in the Official Trustee of Charity 
Lands in trust for the charity, and appointing trustees to 
act in the administration of it, jointly with the Eector of 
Westcott Barton and the Vicar of Steeple Barton, the pre- 
sent trustees. After the payment of the outgoings and 
expenses of management, the commissioners order the 
balance to be divided annually into two equal moieties, one 
of which is to be paid to the Westcott Barton members of 
the trust, and the other to those appointed for Middle 
Barton, and the money is to be applied by the respective 
trustees to the benefit of the most deserving and necessitous 
inhabitants of the respective parishes and liberty, either in 
winter clothing or fuel, to individuals, or in aid of clothing 
or fuel club funds, as shall seem most advantageous to them 
in the opinion of the trustees. The land is now (Michaelmas, 
1869) let in lots, at five shillings a chain, free of all rates 
and taxes. 

The new Trustees are — For Westcott Barton : The Eector 
and Churchwardens of the Parish, the Rev. Jenner Marshall, 
clerk ; Henry Cole, baker. For Middle Barton : The Vicar 
and Churchwardens of Steeple Barton, Alexander William 
Hall, Esq. ; Mr. William Wing. 



WESTCOTT BARTON. 25 



CHAPTEE VIII. 

THE PARISH REGISTERS AND THE OFFICERS' ACCOUNT 

BOOKS. 

Parish registers are seldom to be met with of an earlier 
date than the middle of the sixteenth eentury. Before the 
Eeformation, registers were kept by the monks in their 
rehgious houses ; and it is to be lamented that, at the 
dissolution of the monasteries, when their libraries were 
dispersed, the registers should have been lost or destroyed. 
The 70th Canon of 1603 orders ministers to keep a register 
of christenings, burials, and marriages. One and the same 
volume was made to serve for every registration in a parish, 
and there was no schedule in the book of particulars of entry. 
In the year 1812 registers became regulated by Statute 52 
Geo. III. ch. 146, and baptisms, burials, and marriages were 
to have each their respective register-book, with proper 
forms of entry printed and scheduled. 

The registers of Westcott Barton commence with the year 
1559. The entries previous to 1561 are, for our purposes, 
totally illegible from obliteration, but from that date, for 
some years following, they are clear, and are beautifully 
written in a set and uniform character. After this mode 
however was given up, and each writer formed the letters 
according to his own fashion, the entries are often care- 
lessly and indistinctly made. There are only two volumes 
of registers exclusive of those commencing with the new 
Act of 1812—13. The first closes with the year 1678. The 
second repeats the entries of that year, and concludes with 
1812. From 1638 to 1662 the entries are made without 
care, and from 1685 to 1695 there is an absence of any 
entry, with the exception of the baptism of Eobert, the son 
of Eobert and Susanna Buswell, March 28, 1693. 

From 1559 to 1677 there are entered 307 christenings, 
185 burials; 1678 to 1812,532 christenings, 390 burials ; 
1813 to 1867, Dec. 31, 447 christenings, 277 burials. 



26 MEMORIALS OF 

The following extracts are a few more worthy of notice : — 
On the 25th of June, 1656, Peter, the son of John Bowen, 
minister, and Elizabeth, his wife, was baptized * 
1566 The 29th day of August, was John HanweU baptized 

at home, and buried the same day. 
1608 There is the expression, unusual in later times, of Old 

Gadwyffe : " Old Gadwyffe Olfield dyed and was 

buried 21 day of August/' 
1610 Old Gadwyffe TapsiU— 1633 Old Goodwyffe Hirst. 
1612 Mr. John Norvfoode dyed and was buried 13th day of 

April-t 
1649 "William Belcher, the son of Thomas Belcher, and 

Elizabeth, his wife, was buried the 15th day of Feb- 
ruary, in the year of our Lord 1649, being 23 years 

of age, and was buried in the chancel." 
1654 "Joana, the wife of Thomas fforde, buried in our 

parish church upon the 9th day of February, in the 

year of our Lord 1654. She was buried in our 

Church." 
1640 " Eichard Gregson, some years Parson of this parish, 

was buried here 28th of March." 
1668 " Thomas Belcher, buried the 21 day of January, who 

dyed at the Burnt House at Steeple Barton, and was 

buried in our chancel of Westcott Barton Church." 
1642 "Cornelius, the son of John Newman, and Mary, his 

wife, chiistened the 4th of November, being a souldier 

for the King/' J 
1680 "Thomas Belcher, Eector of this parish, was buried 

Oct. 14th." 
In the autumn of the year 1764 a fatal epidemic seems 
to have prevailed in the village, for, from the beginning of 
July to the end of that year, there were the extraordinary 
number of sixteen burials, of which six were of members of 
the Buswell family. The average of burials for the ten 

* Mr. Bowen was the Commonwealth Minister spoken of at p. 1 7. 

t Mr. John Norwoode was probably the donor of the charity (p. 21). 

X The battle of Edgehill, distant about 20 miles, occurred on the 23rd of 
October. It is probable, therefore, that John Newman was engaged in that 
fight, and survived the conflict. 



WESTCOTT BARTON. 27 

previous years was less than three, and of christenings 
less than four. The year following this great mortality, the 
christenings rose to eight, and the average of the next ten 
was in excess of the previous. 

1795 "John Bus well, commonly called 'Black Jack,^ was 
buried March 22nd." 

Persons in the earliest times were called by a single 
name, but, as population increased, they began to acquire an 
additional one, which was usually that of the individual 
bearer's place of abode, or the business he pursued, or some 
peculiarity in his character. This seems to be the latest 
mode, and a cojnmon one, for Mr. Jordan remarks, at p. 449 
of his Parochial History of Enstone, that, " when families 
were numerous, it had become either necessary or customary 
to attach a soubriquet to the name of those who had received 
the same christian names, in order to distinguish them from 
one another— thus in a family of the name of Boulton, this 
had been done in order to distinguish several John Boultons" 
that they had amongst them, and so we find these entries : 
— In the Enstone registers 1605, Thomas Boulton, son of 
black John, was buried xxii of February 1606. Philip 
Boulton, son of blacke John Bolton and Elizabeth his wife 
was baptized the iiii of March. 

The register of marriages down to 1812, is extremely 
defective, the first entry is in the year 1561, the entries in 
the second volume commence with the year 1705, and end 
with 1753, and during this period there were forty-six 
weddings, of which only ten were of parties, one or the other 
or both belonging to this parish. From some cause prevalent 
at the time, which the new marriage act probably brought to 
a termination, persons in those days would resort to the 
neighbouring churches for this rite rather than to their own. 

The order of surnames as they made their appearance for 
the first time in the parish taken from these registers may 
not be without interest to those connected with the parish. 
In the following tables the first column of figures shows the 
year in which the name is entered for the first time in the 
register of baptisms; the second column of figures shows when 
it appears the last time among the baptisms; and the third co- 
lumn shows the date of the latest entry in the register of burials. 



28 



MEMORIALS OF 





1st 


Vol. 




1628 


Twynam 






1561 


Hopkins 


1578 


1628 


1628 


Evens 


U722 


1810 




Busbe 


1721 


1752 




Evans 






Fylde 
Morley 




1592 


1629 


Ditton 


1643 


1677 




1564 




1630 


Avay 








Hanwell 


1607 


1601 




Cry 


1634 






Turner 


1575 




1631 


Rush 


1682 


1716 


1564 


Smith 


1685 


1779 


1633 


Hoare 


1683 


1722 




BuU 




1602 


1634 


Reynolds 








Coupper 


) 




1635 


Sutton 


1670 


1683 




Cowper 
Cupper 


[l617 


1607 


1636 


Pert 
Piert 


|l683 


1727 




Coopper 




1655 




Judge 


1638 


1645 


1567 


Done 


1602 


1590 




Lovell 








Hall 


1619 




1638 


Abraham 








Haul 








Andrews 








Saunders 


1583 


1612 


1641 


Winter 


1757 




1575 


Gilberd 


".1584 


1619 




Farbrother 


1697 


1731 




Gilbert 


1653 


Banbury 


1655 






AUen 




1663 


1652 


Taylor 


1655 


1633 




Gibs 


1598 


1622 


1649 


Buswell 


1785 


1824 


1578 


Smart 




1624 


1656 


Kings 


■1661 




1581 


Mil way 


1598 


1630 




King 


1739 


1583 


Gye 








Bowen 


1657 


1645 


1584 


Bricknell 


1600 


1753 




Lobe 






1585 


Hiat 


1603 




1657 


Goffe 








Dennet 


1588 




1662 


Councer 


1668 






Sleamaker 


1588 


1637 


1663 


Wright 


1667 


1679 


1588 


Newman 


1642 


1588 




Cockson 


1684 


1711 




Warland ■ 








Parker 


1668 


1672 


1590 


Grigson 
Gregson 


■1603 


1640 


1678 


Haynes 
BrowTison 




1663 
1716 




Ward 








Nown 


1685 


1685 


1592 


Marten 
Martin 


■1682 


1726 










1594 


OjffiLeld 


1642 


1644 










1602 


Harris 


1643 


1663 


Burial Entries of 


Navies not in 




Aris 






THE List of Christenings 




1603 


Hirst 




1644 










1604 


Johnson 


1612 


1632 












Tapsell 


1612 


1613 


1562 


Colyns 


Dawkins 


1607 


FfrankKn 


1673 


1717 




Keye 


1625 Wilkms 




Savage 


1661 


1661 


1578 


Stone 


1628 AlcoGke 




Little 


1736 


1777 


1584 


Rippingall 


Robinson 


1614 


Becket 






1597 


Parsons 


1636 Long 




Millin 




1622 




Bolt 


1637 Brooke 


1618 


Fidlar 


1621 


1644 




Wilder 


1642 Love 




Payne 


1624 


1661 


1612 


Norwoode 


Hoopp 




Belcher 




1680 


and 25 




1655 Hewet 


1619 


Clarke 


1622 


1661 


1614 


Cumber 


1656 Mander 




Willis 




1669 


1620 


Harrington 


1663 C- 




1620 


Hoiden 


1641 


1644 


and 44 




1669 Beards 




Marry 






1622 


Lambert 


1671 Addams 


1623 


Denyst 














1624 


Fford 


1677 


1658 











WESTCOTT BARTON. 



29 





2nd Vol 






1754 


Gibbard ) 
Gilberd t 






1821 


1682 


Swayne 














Cross 
Crasse 


1754 


1769 




Parsons 




1848 


1861 




1759 


Townsend 




1774 


1795 


1683 


Rogerson 




1719 


1760 


Rawlins 




1758 




1685 


Bowler 


1707 


1737 


1761 


HoUis 




1855 


1861 




Rogers 


1719 






Nicols 




1813 


1807 




Medford 






1763 


Langford 




1773 


1804 


1698 


Bathe 
Bave 


1730 


1754 


1764 


Boddington i 
Bodenton ] 




1775 


1765 


1699 


Stringer 






1765 


Praf 








1701 


Vicars 
Vigera 


1720 


1742 




Praphat 
Provia 








1702 


Simons 


1826 


1846 




Proffet 




1865 


1865 




Lee 


1708 


1826 




Probate 








1708 


Dandridge 


1721 


1751 




Probetts 








1709 


Sandars 




1749 




Profit J 








1710 


Walmsley 


1711 


1726 




Kettle 




1781 


1810 




Wells 


1736 


1765 




Venfield 




1778 


1799 




Petty 
Hugheys 




1765 


1767 


Worley 








1716 






1771 


Doiley 
Woodward 




1774 




1717 


Berry 










1808 


1867 




Asbiston 






1772 


Carter 




1792 


1839 


1720 


Skeysbrook 








Brooks 




1844 


1861 


1722 


Holier 






1775 


Reeves 




1840 


1855 




Riniel / 
Ryman ) 


1809 


1819 


1776 


Coles 




1855 


1856 






Bedwell 




1825 


1776 


1723 


Prat 


1768 


1778 


1779 


Bolton 


• 


1865 


1866 


1726 


Pool 


1729 






Boulton 


1728 


Bagley 


1738 


1736 


1781 


Soden 




1798 




1729 


Gubbins . 




1768 


1782 


White ^ 




1835 


1839 


1730 


Castle 


1832 


1808 


1783 


Brangwin 




1787 




1731 


Watson 
Savings 


1807 
1747 


1832 
1759 


1784 


Seney 
HuckiU 


) 


1819 




1732 


Bagnel 








Huckwell 




1867 


1864 


1735 


Skeeley 








Hukken 


) 






1737 


Eldridge 






1787 


Jonson 








1738 


Lewin J 
Luing f 
Duffil ( 


1836 


1839 


1783 
1790 


Jarvis 
Heans 




1855 
1793 


1856 




1772 


1784 


1791 


Harris 










Duffield ) 






1794 


Shilton 


■ 


1806 


1845 


1740 


Hedges 


1752 


1825 




Chilton 








Jones 






1795 


Churchill 










Eglestone 


1860 


1786 


1797 


Fortnam 




1864 


1840 


1741 


Tanner 


1756 


1784 


1798 


Worfill 


1 

1 








Bedding 








Worfield 






1743 


Saloway 


1758 


1793 




Worvill 




1863 


1852 


1745 


Boader, a 
Traveller 








Worful 
Worville 










Woodenton 




1762 


1801 


Young 




1812 


1823 


1747 


Ash ) 

Nash } 
Naish ) 


1827 


1815 


1802 


Steward 
Stewart 
Elliot 


} 


1867 


1867 


1752 


Mitchell 




1752 




Matthews 


1 


1845 


1833 


1754 


Taylor 




1746 




Mathus 



30 



MEMORIALS OF 



1804 Wyhatt 
Blaby 
Bennett 
Fowler 
Boffin 

1805 Allin 
Keen 

1806 Pope 
Coxhead 

1807 Colegrove 
Colgrove 
Butler 

1811 Davies 

1812 Saunders 
Gould 



1845 1853 

1824 1804 

1861 

1808 1816 

1810 1826 
1856 1863 

1844 

1811 1850 

1838 1835 

1830 

1814 



Burial Entries of Names not in the 
List of Christenings. 



1680 Hicks 



1740 



1681 Shepherd 1743 

and 85 

1685 



1684 
1701 



1709 
1717 
1721 
1726 

1731 



Busby of 

Bedford 

Baker 

Batchelor 

Hanwell a 

Traveller 

Blower of 

London 

Berriman 

Field 

Colcot 

Kery of 

Enstone 

Hartwell 



1737 Foulkes 



1744 
&61 
1746 
1748 
1750 



1754 
1765 
1767 
1769 

1797 
&41 
1801 
1809 



Evans of Hor- 
sham, Essex- 
Tayler a 

Traveller 

Grafton 
Dad 
Cooper 
BoneaTravel- 

ler 
Pryor 

Hadlard 
Toms 
Cupper 
Turner 

Williams 

Gibson 
Wootton 



3rd and 4th Vols. 

1813 Davis a Traveller 

Davis 1865 1866 

1814 Haw^kes 1850 1864 
Gardiner 1837 
Wilkins 1860 1866 

1815 Edwards 1825 

1816 Kilby 1832 
Tyrrell 1819 

1817 Lowe 



1818 
1819 
1820 

1821 
1823 



1824 
1826 
1827 
1828 



1829 
1830 
1831 



1832 
1833 
1835 



1836 
1837 
1838 



1839 
1840 
1842 

1848 

1849 

1851 



1852 
1854 
1855 
1858 

1859 
1860 



Fathers 
Mason 
Smith 
Stickley 
Brain 
Shaw 
Green 
Grant 
Franklin 
^Buswell 
Field 
Chadbon 
Hartless 
Finch 
Faulkner 
Crook 
Haynes 
Abraham 
Tayler 
Hawkins 
Cross 
Penn 
Webb 
Heydon 
Tustain 
Wheeler 
MiUs 
Clark 
Jephson 
Jepson 
Johnson 
Zekel 
Pyman 
Foster 
Wren 
Salmon 
Manning 
Baker 
West 
Phipps 
Gillam 
Gerard 
Mold 
Mole 
Simpkins 
Yeatman 
Stowe 
Hiions 
Nickols 
Rose 
Cole 
Morgan 
Grimsbery 
Cato 



1865 1866 

1827 

1865 1859 

1828 



1866 

1828 
1835 

1863 

1840 



1862 

1834 
1832 
1837 
1839 



1867 
1832 
1865 
1860 
1863 
1865 
1833 



1865 1862 
1856 1867 
1840 

1861 



1844 
1859 



1849 

1858 

1855 
1853 
1856 
1862 



1847 
1854 
1857 

1847 
1854 

1866 

1849 
1863 



* The Bus wells wlio from this date appear in the Registers, are in do way re- 
lated to the family of the same name formerly of the Manor. 



WESTCOTT BAETON. 



31 



1.860 Beesley 


1826 


1828 Bartlett 


Whitlock 




and 36 


Marshall 


1864 1864 


1833 Ward 


Cleaver 




1835 Warner 


Maciaxlaine 




1838 Huggins 


Kirby 


1865 1861 


1840 Seagrave 


1862 Preedy 


1861 


and 58 


1863 Allen 




1841 Greenway 


1866 Humpliries 




1843 Hebborn 
1845 Burborough 


Burial Entries 


OF Names not in 


1849 Long 


THE List of 


Christenings. 


and 61 

Coggins 


1823 Daniel 




1851 Hounslow 


and 61 




1853 Fawdery 


1825 Pigeon 




1854 Lacey 


1826 Lamb 




1861 Thomson 


1856 Hall 




and 64 



In the Churchwarden's account hook which dates only 
from May 20, 1783, is found written on the cover, " 1824, 
Mr. Powel's contract for new roofing the church £110 05. Id., 
sold the old lead for £91 145.'' Other entries within the 
book are Oct. 30, 1820, paid for beer for getting the Bel 
down, 45., W. Young, Churchwarden. 

Disbursements of John Keeve and Thos. West, Church- 
wardens, 1824. New roofing the Church and expenses at- 
tending, £115 65. 5d. 

Between the years 1811 and 1834, are entries at various 
times of charges for the destruction of Sparrows, amounting 
in the whole to 954 dozen, at 3d. a dozen, and also of 40 
Hedgehogs at id. sl piece. 

The rest are of the ordinary character for the services and 
common repairs of the church. 

The Parish Books contain entries of collections in church 
for Briefs'"' bearing date from the year 1681 to 1744, of these 
there is an entry, October 22, 1738, for a certified loss by 
hail storm at Dunstew and Deddington, of £1,080 and 
upwards, when there was collected in church one shilling, 

* A Brief — Tent : a letter. — Letters patent granted by the Sovereign for col- 
lecting of charitable benevolence to poor sufferers by fire or other casualties. 
— Bailey's Diet. — Queen's letters have been the latest form of Royal Licence 
for collections in Churches. — Both have now been suppressed for some years, 
the first by stat. Geo. IV., ch. 42. — The latter in the reign of the present 
Sovereign. 



32 MEMORIALS OF 

and by voluntary subscriptions, fifteen shillings and tenpence* 
During the sixty-three years which intervened between 
1681 and 1744, there were read no less than two hundred 
and seventy-three of these Briefs, and the collections on each 
occasion were very small, and sometimes there was not any- 
thing collected ; apparently the more distant the calamity 
the less sympathy was evinced for it, fires and inundations 
near Oxford seem to have excited the deeper, and inundations 
more than fires. The money collected u23on the Briefs in 
the Church did not at any one time amount to five 
shillings. It is stated in these books, that in the year " 1 722, 
March 28th, was buried Thomas Dandridge, on which occa- 
sion ]\irs. Dandridge gave ten shillings for a funeral sermon,"'" 
and at this time the Mill was probably in existence, for there 
is an entry to the efi'ect that " John Bus well at the Mill 
owed one year's Easter ofi'ering — four pence.'' 

Among the Constables' dishursements from 1740 to 1815, 
the payments of MarshaLsea money frequently occur ; 
there are also these entries : — 

1742 Dec. 5, John Brown for New Town Gun O5. 9d. 
10, Paid Thomas King for Gun Powder 1 8 

1747 March, For Watch Bill 1 

1749 June 7 Paid John Parsons for the use of a 
Slead for drawing the great stones from 
the Pound to mend Westcott Barton 

Bridge 3 

1760 July 7 For the use of John Parsons' Gun 2 6 
1766 July 20 Paid John Brown for stocking the 

Town Gun '..... 2 6 

1768 Nov. 1 Paid Parsous for a pair of New 

Stocks 12 6 

April 17 Paid John Parsons for half the 

charge of a new gate at the Pound 4 

Marshalsea Money. — Under this title there was included 

* " Funeral sermons used to be very general in England : I know no where 
that it is retained at present, excej)t upon Portland Island, where the minister 
has half a guinea for every sermon he preaches." Brand's Popular Antiquities, 
vol. ii, p. 171 ; Knight's Ed. Lond. ]841. The first edition of this work was 
printed at Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1777. See the editor's advertisement. 



WESTCOTT BARTON". 33 

in the county rate, a certain charge for the rehef of the 
poor prisoners confined in the King's Bench and Marshalsea 
prisons, agreeably with the Statutes 43 Elizabeth, c. 2, s. 14. 
— 12 Geo. ii., c. 29. s. 2. — 53 Geo. iii., c. 113. 

The Town Gun, for which there are sundry expenses in- 
curred besides those abo^e given, does not refer to anything 
more formidable than the perpetual warfare which was at 
this time carried on by the growers of corn against the 
Sparrow and Finch tribes in the op en and uninclosed common 
fields. 

The Pound, - — Saxon-Pyndan. — (A prison for beasts, 
Johnson's Diet.) situated in the North Angle formed by the 
Kiddington and Worton highway, where it crosses the 
turnpike road from Bicester to Enstone, is in Middle Barton 
Liberty, and it would seem by the account books of the 
parish officers, that it had been kept in repair jointly by 
Westcott Barton and Middle Barton, for their common use. 
— " Pounds were originally provided upon the waste lands 
of the Manor, and were intended for cattle taken on trespass, 
and therein to be detained till the owner redeemed them — • 
persons attempting to rescue cattle lawfully impounded, or 
damaging the Pound, are liable to a penalty not exceeding 
fiYQ pounds or three months' imprisonment with hard 
labour."""" 

The Stocks. — Saxon Stocce ; a prison for legs (Johnson's 
Diet.) stood in "Fox" lane till the spring of 186*8, when 
they fell down and have not yet been replaced. The history 
of " Parish Stocks'^ extends back over a period exceeding 
five hundred years. They are enjoined by statute to be set 
up in every parish, and parishes are indictable for not having 
their Stocks, and are liable to a penalty of five pounds ; 
their purpose is the safe custody of disorderly persons, and 
by way of punishment alternative, as, where a person sen- 
tenced to a fine of five shillings for drunkenness by Stat. 
James 1, c. 7, is unable to pay it he is to be confined in the 
Parish Stocks for six hours. f 

* See ad vocem, the Cyclopaedias and the Cabinet Lawyer, 1861, 
t See ditto, et ad vocem Drunkenness, 



34 MEMORIALS OF 



CHAPTER IX. 

THE INCLOSURE ACT AND THE AWARD. 

The Title of the Act of Parliament under which the 
Parish was inclosed is as follows : — 

An Act for dividing and inclosing the open and common 
fields, common meadows, common pastures, waste and other 
commonable lands and grounds within the Parish and 
Precincts of Westcott Barton, and within the Liberty and 
Precincts of Middle Barton, in the Parish of Steeple Barton, 
in the County of Oxford, 35 George iii, 1795. 
The award is dated April 2, 1796. 

Note. — The Inclosure of the lands of Westcott Barton 
under one and the same Act with those of Middle Barton 
belonging to the Parish of Steeple Barton, was rendered 
necessary by their intermixture ; a circumstance which 
in some places is found to exist, and which is accounted for 
by Blackstone, in his Commentaries on the Laws of England, 
Vol. 1, Sect. 113. He says, "The division of the kingdom 
into parishes happened by degrees ; it seems pretty clear 
and certain that the boundaries of parishes were originally 
ascertained by those of a Manor or Manors ; since it very 
seldom happens that a manor extends itself over more 
parishes than one, though there are often many manors in 
one parish. The Lords as Christianity spread itself began 
to build churches on their own demesnes, or wastes, to 
accommodate their tenants in one or two adjoining lordships, 
and in order to have divine service regularly performed 
therein, obliged all their tenants to appropriate their tithes to 
the maintenance of the one officiating minister, instead of 
leaving them at liberty to distribute them among the clergy 
of the diocese in general, and this tract of land the tithes 
whereof were so appropriated, formed a distinct parish, which 
will well enough account for the frequent intermixture of 
parishes one with another. But if the lord had a parcel of 
land detached from the main of his estate, but not sufiered 
to form a parish of itself, it was natural for him to endow 



WESTCOTT BARTON. * 35 

his newly erected church with the tithes of those disjointed 
lands ; especially if no church was then built in any lord- 
ship adjoining those outlying parcels.'' 

The award is engrossed in two parts according to the act ; 
one being deposited for public inspection and perusal upon 
the payment of one shilling in the office of the clerk of the 
. peace ; the other contained in two tin cases, one holding the 
award, the other the map or plan with reference thereto, is 
in custody of the Eector of Westcott Barton for the inspec- 
tion and perusal of the proprietors interested in the in- 
closure. 

It is seen by the said act that all Kents, Services, Courts, 
Perquisites of Courts, and Profits of Courts, and all other 
Eoyalties and Privileges belonging to the manors of Middle 
Barton and Westcott Barton, other than such commonable 
Rights as are compensated for under the award by allot- 
ments of land are preserved as whole and intact to the lords 
of the respective manors as if. the act had not passed. 

Certain specialities of the award are, that the feed and 
pasture of the public roads are allotted to the proprietors 
whose allotments adjoin the roads respectively to the centre 
thereof, as far as the allotments extend along the said roads, 
and that for the common repairs of the roads in the inter- 
mixed parishes, a line is drawn from North to South, and all 
the roads lying to the West of this recited line or boundary 
are to be kept in repair by the owners and occupiers of the 
parish of Westcott Barton, and all on the east by those of 
Middle Barton. 

It is also seen that the rector of Westcott Barton in right 
of his rectory is allotted as a full satisfaction for tithes, certain 
shares of land as equal in value to one fifth part of the 
arable, and^one ninth part of the pasture land (the ground set 
out for roads and quarries having been first deducted) and 
that the remaiuder of the parish is thus for ever exonerated 
from the payment of tithe (Mortuaries Easter offerings and 
Surplice Fees due to the Eector being excepted.) 

After reciting that " the poor residing within the parish 
and precincts of Westcott Barton and the liberty and pre- 
cincts of Middle Barton had from time immemorial used 



36 MEMORIALS OF 

and exercised the liberty of cutting furze and other fuel 
growing within and upon certain parts of the said common- 
able lands by the said Act intended to be divided and 
inclosed to be spent and consumed by them in their 
dwelling-houses in Westcott Barton and Middle Barton 
aforesaid, and not elsewhere, and that the said proprietors, 
being desirous that some provision might be made for the 
said poor people as a satisfaction for the pri^dlege so 
enjoyed by them as aforesaid, it is in and by the said Act 
enacted that the Commissioners should, and they are hereby 
required to set out and allot unto and for the Duke of 
Marlborough, Francis Page, Edward Taylor, William Taylor, 
Samuel Churchill, William Weston, Thomas Brangwin, the 
Kector of Westcott Barton, and the Vicar of Steeple Barton, 
for the time being, such plot or plots of land, parcel of the 
lands and grounds by the said Act intended to be inclosed 
as should, in the judgment of the said Commissioners, be 
thought a proper satisfaction for such liberty so exercised 
by the said poor as aforesaid, and that from and after such 
allotment or allotments should be made in satisfaction as 
aforesaid, all liberty and right of cutting furze and other 
fuel as aforesaid should cease, and that the said Trustees, 
their heirs, and successors, should stand and be seized of 
such land so to be allotted in satisfaction as aforesaid upon 
trust from time to time to let the same for any term or term 
of years not exceeding twenty-one years for the best and 
most improved rent that could be gotten for the same, and 
lay out the clear rents, issues, and profits thereof, after the 
costs and charges attending the execution of the powers by 
the said Act reposed in them should be satisfied, in the 
purchase of coals and other fuel for the use of the poor of 
Westcott Barton and Middle Barton aforesaid, and should 
ca,use the same to be distributed amongst the poor on the 
twenty-fourth day of December yearly for ever in such pro- 
portions as the said Trustees or any person or persons to be 
deputed for that purpose by them should think fit and 
reasonable." 

The Commissioners, in pursuance of the said Act, did 
therefore set out two pieces of land, the one as recited in 



WESTCOTT BARTON. 



37 



the schedule, p. 40, the other a piece adjoining in the liberty 
of Middle Barton, consisting of A. 15, R. 1, P. 22. 

By reference to the first schedule of the award specifying 
the several sums of money to be annually paid by the pro- 
prietors of messuages, tenements, gardens, orchards, and 
ancient inclosures, who were not entitled to lands or com- 
mon rights in the lands and grounds by the said Act directed 
to be divided and inclosed sufficient to make compensation 
for the tithes thereof, eight tenements are seen to be sub- 
jected to two half-yearly payments to the Eev. Edward 
Seagrave, Eector of Westcott Barton, amounting in the 
whole to five shillings and eightpence a year. By refer- 
ence to the second schedule, it appears that the total ex- 
penses of the inclosure of Westcott Barton and Middle 
Barton amounted to £3,261 4s. 3d., which gives an average 
of rather less than £1 5s. per acre, the joint acrerage being 
2,236 acres 2 roods and 23 perches, including 5 acres 2 roods 
and 11 perches allotted for stone pits and 51 acres and 11 
perches for roads, as is stated upon the map or plan made by 
the surveyer of the inclosure, and accompanying the copy of 
the award deposited in the parish of Westcott Barton. 

The Allotments with reference to the Map : 

No. Samuel Churchill, Esq. a. r. p. a. r. p. 

One moiety of the manor farm in fee. 

1 One moiety of the manor allotment . . 

2 First allotment .... 

171 Second ditto ..... 

172 Third ditto, taken in exchange for balance of 

homestead ..... 

173 Allotment for calves' close 

Old Inclosures. 

3 Homestead and meadow 

4 Malt-house and close .... 

193 Northward twenty acres 

194 Southward twenty acres 

One moiety of the manor for lives. 

7 One moiety of the manor farm 
9 First allotment .... 

8 Second ditto . 



4 


36 




66 


18 




8 3 


35 




6 1 


17 




2 1 


39 




3 2 


38 




1 


25 




18 1 


37 




16 1 


19 






— 127 


3 24 


3 


16 




40 3 


1 




6 3 


24 





38 MEMORIALS OF 

No. Old Inclosures. a. r. p. a. r. p. 



5 House and garden . . . . 1 26 

6 Meadow and cottages . . . . 1 2 10 



53 1 37 



William Taylor, Esq. 
176 First allotment . . . . 134 1 11 

12 Second ditto . . . . . 13 3 39 

Old Inclosures. 
159 Homestead, meadow, and close . . 9 2 38 



■158 



Mr. W. Weston. 

177 First allotment . . . . 109 1 14 

30 Second ditto . . . . . 63 3 24 

Old Inclosures. 

144 Homestead and close . . . . 5 1 23 

155 House, malthonse, and close ... 21 

157 Pittice meadow . . . . 2 2 13 

161 House and Grafton's close ... 2 30 



-183 3 25 



Duke of Marlborough. 

186 First Allotment . . . . 34 3 6 

192 Parsonage close, taken in exchange of IMr. 

Seagrave . . . . . 3 36 



38 



John Walker, Esq. 
37 AUotment . . . . . 22 1 34 

Old Inclosures. 
145 Homestead and close .... 1 34 



Mr. F. Brangwin. 

61 AUotment . . . . . 20 2 1 



23 2 28 



20 2 1 



Thomas Ricketts. 
174 Allotment . . . . . 3 2 22 

Old Inclosures. 

156 House and close .... 1 35 

163 Cottage and garden . . . . 1 14 

5 31 

John Hollis. 

59 Allotment . . . . . 2 3 29 

Old Inclosures. 

148 Cottage and garden . . ' . . 22 

3 11 



WESTCOTT BARTON. 39 

No. John Patrick. a. r. p. a. r. p. 

68 First allotment 
65 Second ditto 

Thomas Boddington. 
43 Allotment ..... 1 11 

Old Inclosures. 
120 Shop, Barn, Close, taken in Exchange of S. 



35 


1 


20 








36 



















71 


1 


20 



Churchill ..... 

121 Mill Pike, taken in Exchange of the Duke of 

Marlborough ..... 




3 
1 


16 
6 


1 1 33 


Trustees of Sandford Poor. 








167 Allotment. ..... 


2 


3 


21 


2 3 21 


Edward Mobbs. 








70 Allotment. ..... 


3 


2 


15 


3 2 15 


James Parsons. 








151 Allotment 




1 


33 




Old Inclosures. 










153 House and Yard 






30 


<0 O/i 



Richard Hughes. 
20 Allotment . . . . . . 2 10 

Old Inclosures. 
147 House and Garden . , . ; 38 



William Luing. 
22 Allotment . . . *. . 1 30 



1 30 



Rev. Edward Seagrave. 

16 Allotment for Glebe Land . . . 32 1 29 

14 First Allotment for Tithes . . . 44 3 17 
34 Second, ditto . . . . . 126 3 4 

15 Duke of Marlborough, second allotment taken 

in Exchange . . . . . 2 3 26 

Old Inclosures. 
158 Homestead . . . . . 2 3 26 



209 3 2 



40 MEMORIALS OF 








No. Poor. 

32 Allotment 


. . 


A. R. 

13 3 


P. 
6 


A. R. P. 

13 3 6 


Old Inclosures. 








John Parsons. 

149 Cottage 
149*Cottage and Garden 


• 


1 


3 

5 


1 8 


Parish Officers. 








150 Cottage .... 
160 Cottage . , . , 


y 




3 

3 


6 


Ann Simons. 




6 Cottage and Garden 


. 






10 


T. Chilton, 










146 Cottage and Garden 


. 






21 


Jonathan Jarvis. 










1 54 Cottage, Garden, and Orchard 


. 






3 30 


Ann Langford. 










162 Cottage and Garden 


. 






16 







920 


16 


Stone Pits in Westcott Barton. 











1 

1 

2 

1 

1 1 


37 
37 

21 
34 

o 


1 9 


Roads. 






In Westcott Barton and Middle Barton . 




51 


11 



CHAPTER X. 



THE MANOR AND ESTATES. 



Westcott Barton is not particularised by name in Domes- 
day Book. It would seem that, in the survey of the 21st 



WESTCOTT BARTON. 41 

Will. Conq., 1086-7, there was but one and the same return 
by the Commissioners for all the Bartons of this district, 
and they are accounted for as Land of the Bishop of Baieux ; 
Land of Boger dLvri ; and Land of the Bishop of Lisieux.* 

In c. 1154, 1 Hen. II., Humphrey, son of Odo de Barton, 
had possession of one knight's fee of the estate of Manasser 
Arsic.t 

In 1216, 1 Hen. III., Hugo Peynel held one knight's fee 
of William de Kaynes in Westcote Barton. | 

In 1273, 2 Ed. I., Edmund Earl of Cornwall was seized 
of a holding in West Barton.§ 

In 1278, 7 Ed. I., Peter de Barton was found possessed 
of one knight's fee in Little Barton, which he held of Robert 
de Bennes, and there were in the ville 9 villanes, 10 free 
tenants, and 2 cottmen.|| 

In 1316, 9 Ed. I., in a transcript of the record entitled 
Nomina Yillarum, preserved among the Harleian MSS., 
No. 6,281, in the British Museum, and which are the 
returns made to writs issued to all the sheriffs to certify 
what townships there were in each hundred, and who were 
the lords thereof, with a view of raising certain military 
levies, Hugh de Barton is named as Lord of the Manor IF of 
Little Barton. 



* Appendix No. 3. f Appendix No. 4. % Appendix No. 5. 

§ Appendix No. 6. || Appendix No. 7. 

IT The name of Manor is either from the French, " Manoir," or from the 
Latin, " Manendo," as the usual residence of the owner on his land. Aula, 
Halla, Haula, the Hall, was the chief mansion house, and was the usual appen- 
dage of a manor. In one instance in Domesday, Halla is used for a manor, 
fol. 29, B. 

" Manors continued to be erected till the Statute ' Quia Emptores,' which, 
passed 18 Ed. I., and numerous parcels of land which now form manors of 
themselves, at the time of the Domesday survey must have been parcels of 
other manors still in existence." — Extracted from Ellis's Introduction to Domes- 
day Book, vol. i. 

" A manor was formerly such a compass of ground which was granted by 
the king to some baron or great person for him and his family to dwell on, 
and to exercise some jurisdiction within that place, and perform such, services 
and pay such rent as the king required. Afterwards this grantee parcelled out 
his land to others, requiring from them similar services, &c., and these gran- 
tees became lords of manors. The beginning of these grants was some time 
after the Conquest, for we read of no manors before that time." — From Lex 
Maneriorum, by W. Nelson, Esq., fol., Savoy, 1746, p. 118. 



42 MEMORIALS OF 

Names of ratepayers in the year 1327-8, 2 Ed. III., are 
given in the Appendix.'''" 

The Lordship of Barton, including portions of it which 
have acquired distinctive titles, is found after this date in 
the possession of members of the family of John de St. John 
de Lageham,t till it passed into that of the Loveyns in 1351 ; 
from the Loveyns it went to the St. Cleres in 1407 ; and 
about the middle of the 15th century the manor of Barton 
St. John, or Great Barton, was in the hands of William 
Chamberlayne,! son and heir of Eichard Chamberlayne, who 
was son and heir of Margaret, wife of Philip Saint Clare. 
It seems to have remained in this family for about one 
hundred years, when a licence, dated 5th of May, 35th year 
of Hen. YIIL, 1543, was granted to Sir Edward Chamber- 
layne, Leonard Chamberlayne, and Dorothy, his wife, for 
the alienation of the manor to John Nudygate, father to 
the said Dorothy, and Kichard Cripps. It may be assumed 
that this was procured only for the purpose of effecting some 
settlement or family arrangement. 

21st Oct., 38 Hen. YIIL, 1546, Leonard Chamberlayne 
and John BlundeU obtained, with other parcels of the 
revenues belonging to the late cathedral church of Christ 
and the Blessed Virgin Mary, in Oxford ; Abbey of Oseney, 
lately dissolved ; the advowson of the Chm^chg of Great 
Barton ; as also aU rents, services of customary tenants, and 
customary lands in Barton Odo, Great Barton, Middle 
Barton, and Westcote, to hold the same of the king and his 
successors in chief by the service of a 40th part of a knight's 
fee, amounting to 56s. 8d. by theyear.|| 



* Appendix No. 8. 

t See also " Account of Sandford," by Rev. Ed. Marshall, Parker and Co., 
Oxford, Lond., 1866, where are drawn out the particulars of the descent at pp. 
14, 15, with reference to the pedigrees in Manning and Bray's Survey, vol. ii., 
p. 322—5. 

J Judgment given in an Exchequer suit, 34 Hen. VI., 1455. 

§ The Church of Great Barton was given to the Canons of Oseney, c. 1209, 
10 and UK. John ; and in 1228 Roger de St. John confirmed the gift of it, 
Avhich his father had made.— See the Account of Sandford, p. 11. 

II Taken from Particulars of Grants in the Augmentation Office. 



WESTCOTT BARTON. 43 

By letters patent, bearing date September 27, 1532, 24 
Hen. VII I., the King had granted to the Eight Reverend 
Father in God, John Lord Bishop of Lincoln, and others 
(int. als.), all his manor, &c., with their appurtenances, in 
Steeple Barton, Co. Oxon, which were forfeited to the Crown 
by the attainder of Thomas Lord Cardinal Wolsey, to hold 
to them and their heirs, to the use of the Dean and Canons 
of King Henry the Eighth's College in Oxford. 

On the erection of Bishoprics, after the suppression of the 
Abbeys, Oseney was made, in 1542, the Cathedral Church 
of Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary. It only continued 
so, however, for a short time, for in 1546 the King's College 
in Oxford, which had been founded by V^olsey in 1525, and 
called Cardinal CoUege, and was refounded by Henry VIII. 
in 1532, under the name of King's College, was turned into 
the Cathedral Church and the Episcopal See, translated from 
Oseney, with the possessions of that Abbey. 

During this period, embracing parts of the 1 4th and 1 5th 
centuries, the names of some other landowners and persons 
who had from time to time become seized with an interest 
in the manors were — 

In 1322— Nicolas at Putte.'" 

1324 — Johannes Bussebye de Welcombegrene.'"' 

1356— aWillus de SharshulLf 

1375 — Kich. Page de Nether Wortomf 

1 43 6 — Johannes Aston.f 

1438 — Henricus Wilforde et Johannes Francke Cleri- 

cus.t 
1451 — Johanna Legh.f 

1457 — 6Sir John Dynham, Knight,f who held the 
manors of Barton CEde, otherwise SharshiU 
Barton, Rowlesham, and Dernford, and also 

* Calend. Inquis. P.M., vol. i., pp. 269, 281. 

t Ditto, vol. ii., pp. 204, 355 ; vol. iv., pp. 173, 186, 250, 279. 

a William de SharesJmll, Co. Stafford, King's Serjeant, 1330 ; Just. K. B. 
1333 ; Ch. K. B. 1350.— Foss' Judges of England, vol. iii., p. 504. 

" 24 Ed. III. William de Sliareshull had licence from the King to exchange 
with the Canons of Oseney certain lands in Tewe Parva, Sandford, and Oxford, 
for others at Barton, Endon, and Bowlesham." — Dugd. Monast., vol. vi., p. 249. 

h Sir John Dynham, Knight, assisted at the siege of Calais in 1436. He died 
in 1457, 36 Hen. VI., leaving Joanna his wife, daughter and heir of Sir Kichard 



41 MEMORIALS OF 

sundry messuages, lands, and woods within 
those manors, and Stepull Aston Manor ut 
de Honore de Wodestoke. 

By an Inquis. post mortem, 6th Nov., 1 Eliz., 1558, John 
Blundell is found to be seized (int. als.) of the manor of 
Great Barton, with lands in Middle Barton, also the Rectory 
and Advowson of Great Barton. 

By his will, dated 1st April, 1557, he left the same to his 
wife for her life, and after her death to his five daughters 
and their heirs, the said manor and rectory being worth 
£79 12s. Id. of money and lib. of pepper per annum. The 
estate was held of the Queen of the Manor of Woodstock, 
by the suit and view of Frankpledge, twice a year, and the 
rent of 13s. 4d., called head silver, at Michaelmas yearly. 
The daughters and heirs of the said John Blundell were 
Elizabeth, wife of Edward Hogan ; Mary, wife of Gerard 
Croker ; Theodora, Ann, and Susanna. JustiDian Champneys 
afterwards married Theodora ; Thomas Cordell married Ann, 
who died without issue ; Bichard Freston married Susanna, 
who died without issue living, but having had issue. Richard 
was tenant pour le courtesie d'Angieterre. 

Upon a suit of partition''' 21 Eliz. 1578-9 ; promoted by 
Richard Freston, the rectory and vicarage of Steeple Bar- 
ton was divided in fifths ; and Ann's fifth part in thirds, 
viz., to Edward and Elizabeth Hogan, Mary Croker, Jus- 
tinian and Theodora Champneys ; and the said Justinian and 
Theodora had for their part, the site of the Manor of Great 
Barton with other parcels of land. This portion was conveyed 

deArcubus, surviving liim,and Jolin Dynliam, his son and lieir,wlio also became 
a Knight, and distinguished himself at Calais in 1455. Elizabeth Fitzwalter was 
his wife, but dying without male heirs 17 Hen. VII., 1501, his sisters and their 
representatives inherited his estates, one of these being Sir John Arundell, 
Knight, son of Sir Thomas Arundell, Knight, by Katherine, his third sister. 

Dugdale's Baronetage, vol. i., p. 515. 

Lipscomb's Hist, of Bucks, vol. i., pp. 475-6. 

Collinson's Somersetshire, voL ii., p. .362. 

Baker's Chronicle, fob, 166G, p. 209. 

* " It is agreed for law, in 26 Hen. VIII., fol. 4, that if a manor descend to 
three coparceners, and they make j)artition so that each of them have part of 
the demesne and part of the services, that every one of them hath a manor, 
and that each one of them shall have a Court Baron." — See Burton's Leicester- 
shire, fob, Lond., 1622, p. 91. 



WESTCOTT BARTON. 45 

in 1714, by the representatives of Eichard Hawkins, Citizen 
and Grocer of London, (having in the mean time passed 
through other ^ hands) to Francis"'''" Page, of the Inner 
Temple, Esq., who in the year following, obtained by 
purchase certain of the lands and tithesf which had been 
assigned to Edward Hogan and Elizabeth his wife. 

In 1721, the estate of Gerard Croker was in the possession 
of Miles Parker, and in the same year the tithes of Middle 
Barton were sold to the Duke of Marlborough, who thus 
became joint-patron of the vicarage of Steeple Barton with 
Sir Francis Page and Joseph Taylor, Esq., owner of another 
of the shares of the manor and tithes of Great Barton. 

The Duke of Marlborough's interest in Great Barton 
(albeit the appurtenant share of the advowson has not passed 
W. W. p. 54) was transferred to Henry Welbore, Viscount 
Clifden, who on the 10th of March, 1792, married Lady 
Caroline Spencer, eldest daughter of George, fourth Duke of 
Marlborough. The Duke's estate at Westcott Barton and 
Middle Barton, purchased of Mr. Loggin, c. 1777, was sold 
to the said Viscount Clifden in 1811. 

1st and 2nd August, 1740, the estate at Barton of the 
Hon. Sir Francis Page, Knight, was conveyed in trust for 
Francis Bourne, Esq., son of his niece Isabella, Mr. Bourne 
eventually took the name of Page, and died in 1803 ; the 
property then passed to Eichard Bourne, of Elmsley Castle, 
Worcestershire, brother of the aforesaid Francis. Eichard 
did not take the name of Page, having previously assumed 
that of Charlett. 

* Francis Page, second son of the Reverend Nicholas Page, Vicar of Blox- 
ham, was knighted and made King's Serjeant, 1715 — Baron of the Exchequer, 
1718 — Justice of the King's Bench, 1727. He lies buried in a chapel on the 
north side of Steeple Aston Church. Ancient monuments of this chapel which 
no longer exist, were according to the MSS. of Anthony a Wood, recumbent 
effigies representing some of the Dinham family, who were formerly Lords of 
one of the Manors. 

Foss' Judges of England, vol. iii, p. 143 ; Wing's Antiq. and Hist, of Steeple 
Aston, 1845. 

t In 1847, the tithes not dealt with by the inclosure of 1796-7, were com- 
muted and apportioned upon the estates of Henry Hall ; Viscount Clifden ; 
John Painter ; and William Wing. (W. W., p. 57.) This latter being known as 
Whistlow Farm, once the property of the Brangwins and formerly in the 
possession or occupation of Robert Dormer. 



46 MEMORIALS OF 

In 1804, this Estate was sold to William Sturgess Bourne, 
Esq., (from whom in 1846, w. w.) it was purchased by the 
late Hemy Hall, Esq., of Barton Abbey, 

Mr. Taylor, who died in 1732, left his estate in Steeple 
Barton, Middle Barton, and Westcott, to John, the son of 
his brother Edward and from John it passed to his only son 
Edward Taylor, of Steeple Aston, who at his death in 1797, 
left his Barton as well as his Steeple Aston property to 
Mary, daughter of John Lock, Esq., of Chipping Norton, 
she married William Mister, Esq., of Shipston-on-Stour, and 
this property then came to be sold ; the latter has thus passed 
into the possession of the Lechmere family, and the Barton 
into the family of Painter, of Mixbury ; this is now held in 
two moieties, Mr. Joseph Painter having the House and 
Manor allotment with other lands, and Mr. Thomas Painter 
the remainder. The Painters who succeeded to Mr. Taylor's 
manorial rights in Middle Barton, succeeded also to his share 
of the advowson of the Parsonage, which has lately been pur- 
chased of them by the Duke of Marlborough. 

The Manor House and Estate at Barton (Ede, otherwise 
Sesswell's Barton, probably came into the Dormer family 
through the marriage of Geoffrey Dormer, Esq., of Chearsley 
with Ursula, daughter of Bartholomew Collingridge, Esq., 
of Towersey, who had married an Arundell. Ursula was heir 
general of Arundell (Sir Thomas) who married Katharine, 
one of the daughters and co-heiresses of Sir John D}Tiham. 
See Lipscomb's Bucks, Vol. 1, p. 477. 

This house, now styled Barton Abbey, was built by 
John Dormer, c. 1524. But before many years elapsed it 
passed by sale into the family of Sheldon, of Worcestershire, 
" Mr. Ralph Sheldon made great alterations within the house 
in 1678-79.^' (Wood, MS. 8455. Bodl. Lib.) At the com- 
mencement of the present century, it was in the possession 
of William Willan, Esq. (W. W.) who about the year 
1822, sold his property at Barton to William Hall, Esq., of 
Oxford, Grandfather of the present A. W. Hall, Esq. 

C. CottereU Dormer, Esq., of Rousham, holds occasional 
courts for the manor of Steeple Barton, with its appurte- 
nances. 



WESTCOTT BARTON. 47 

Previous to the death of John Blundell in 1558, who, as has 
been stated, had acquired the Manor of Great Barton, that 
known as Little or Westcott Barton, had passed on as a 
distinct Lordship or Manor. It is seen by a deed dated 34 
Henry VIII, 1542, that Eobert Beckingham, of Stonesfield, 
Gent., son and heir of Eichard Beckingham of Pudlicot, 
Esq., and Eleanor his wife, did demise the Manor or Hall 
of Westcott Barton, with its lands, tenements, and ap- 
purtenances to John Cupper, Gent., for a term of twenty- 
one years. — It is probable that this Manor came into the 
family of Beckingham through the marriage of the above 
named Bichard, with Eleanor, the youngest daughter of Sir 
Robert Harcourt, Knight of the body to King Henry VII, 
whose only son John died unmarried ; Sir Bobert was 
standard bearer at the battle of Bosworth field ; his tomb is 
to be seen in the Church of Stanton Harcourt. The Har- 
courts with much probability became originally possessed of 
the estate by the marriage of Sir Bichard H arcourt, of Wi- 
tham, Berks, (whose will was proved October 25, 1486) with 
Edith, one of the three daughters and co-heiresses of Thomas 
St. Clere.* It appears from the pedigree drawn up by Lips- 
comb in his history of Buckinghamshire, that this family had 
an early connexion with the SharshuUs, who were interested 
in Barton ; Sir Richard Harcourt who died without male 
issue previous to the year 1351, and whose brother Thomas 
was a direct ancestor of the great Sir Robert, having married 
Katherine daughter of Sir William Sharshull, Knight, one of 
the justices of the King's Bench in the time of Edward III. 

In 1549, 4 Ed. VI., Simon Barret conveyed to the Presi- 
dent (Owen Oglethorpe) and Fellows of Magdalen College, 
Oxford, three acres of arable land in Westcott Barton.f 

In 1557, John Coper (sic in the Record) purchased the 
advowson of the parsonage of Westcott Barton from the 
Crown, the same, it would seem, having been granted with 
other the possessions of the Abbots and Monks of Ensham 
and Oseney to Wolsey by Hen. VIII. for the endowment 
of his College at Oxford, which subsequently formed parcel 

* See Nicliolls' Leicestershire, Vol. iv. Part i. p. 17. 
t See Appendix, No. ix. 



48 MEMORIALS OF 

of the Kings's foundation of the Cathedral Church of Christ 
and the Blessed Virgin Mary, and after the resignation of 
the Dean and Canons thereof in 1545, being surrendered, 
again became the property of the Crown * 

By a deed of relief dated 1625, 1 Charles I, it appears 
that upon an inquisition after the death of Eichard Cupper, 
it was found that John Cupper, on the 11th of June, 1580, 
23rd of Elizabeth, had conveyed to the use of Eichard Cup- 
per and his heirs for ever the Manor, &c., and the advowson 
of the Church of Westcott Barton ; that Eichard Cupper 
died in the 25th year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, 1582, 
leaving a daughter and sole heiress of the age of eight months 
and sixteen days ; that the manor, &c., &c., were held of the 
late Queen in her right of the Duchy of Lancaster by military 
service, but by what part of a knight's fee it did not appear. 

By another inquisition it had been seen that John Hayes, 
Gentleman, of Maiden Newton, Dorset, had married Eliza- 
beth in her minority, and that through her he had become 
possessed of the Manor, etc., of Westcott Barton, with the 
advowson of the Church. 

In 1612, 9th of James 1st, John Hayes conveyed the 
manor, etc., to John Martin of Wilcot ; the advowson and 
right of presentation to the church had at this period been 
alienated from the manor. 

In 1624, 22nd James I., the manor, with its lands, tene- 
ments, and appurtenances, was assigned by John Martin to 
Eichard Eford, who seems to have disposed of it during his 
lifetime, he died 1638, 14 Charles I. About this time 
the Buswell family came to reside in Westcott Barton, being 
possessed of almost the entire parish besides the manor. 

At the commencement of the eighteenth century, Thomas 
Dandriclge, of Tackley, Gentleman, is found to have acquired 
the farm, now known as Park Place, formerly in the occupa- 
pation of Eichard Eford. 

Between 1772 and 1795, part of the estate of the Bus- 
wells was sold to Mr. Weston ; this is now the interest in 
Westcott Barton of A. W. Hall, Esq., and another part, 
Horsehay Farm came into the possession of Mr. John Patrick. 

* See Appendix, No. x. 



WESTCOTT BARTON. 49 

The manor with other parcels of lands was purchased by 
Samuel Churchill, Esq., of Deddington. In 1821, one moiety 
of the manor with certain lands was conveyed to the 11 ev 
William Wilson, D.D., of Worton ; the other passed by sale 
in 1847, to Mr. Isaac Berridge, of Somerton. 

In 1857, the Rev. Jenner Marshall, bought the two moie- 
ties of the manor" with the other lands, tenements, and 
appurtenances l)elonging to Dr. Wilson and Mr. Berridge. 



CHAPTER XL 

BRIEF NOTICES OF THE CHIEF PROPRIETORS OF 1867-8. 

NAMES OF THE OTHERS AND THEIR RESPECTIVE PRO- 
PERTIES. 

Reverend Jenner Marshall, M.A., of Worcester College. 
Oxford, became a freeholder in Westcott Barton, by the pur- 
chase of a small estate in 1846 of the Trustees of Mrs. 
Martha Rand, and has subsequently made additions to his 
property, embracing various allotments and old inclosures 
referred to under the award in the several names of S. 
Churchill, Esq., William Taylor, Esq., Mr. William. Weston, 
Thomas Ricketts, Ann Simons, Ann Langford, and the 
Parish Officers. He is proprietor of 300 acres. 

Reverend Edmund L. Lockyer, M.A., of Emmanuel Col- 
lege, Cambridge, holds with the rectorial estate, the Lot in 
the award map No. 20, which at the inclosure belonged to 
Richard Haynes ; Mr. Lockyer became the purchaser of 
Pittice Meadow, at the public sale of the Reverend W. 
Harding's estates allotted in 1796 to Mr. W. Weston. He 
is proprietor of • 2 1 2 acres. 

Alexander W. Hall, Esq., of Exeter College, Oxford, suc- 
ceeded to his estate in 1862 upon the death of his father, the 

* Tlie Dovecote of the Manor stood on the west of the old Manor or Hall, 
and was demolished when the alterations took place while Mr. Berridge was 
owner of the Manor. 

The last Court Baron of the Manor was held in 1823. 

Deputations to game keepers enrolled with the clerk of the peace, date from 
the year 17&8 to 1827. 

E 2 



50 



MEAIORIALS OF 



late Henry Hall, Esq., of Barton Abbey, who at a sale by 
public auction in 1855, purchased the same belonging to the 
JReverend William Harding, Vicar of Sulgrave, Northamp- 
tonshire. This estate at the time of the inclosure, formed 
the chief allotment and old inclosure of Sir. W. Weston. 
He is proprietor of 178 acres. 

Henry George Agar Ellis, Viscount and Baron Clifden, 
of Gowran, Co. Kilkenny, in the Peerage of Ireland ; born 
2nd August 1863, succeeded 20th February, 1866. He is 
proprietor of 72 acres. 

Thomas Greenaway, Yeoman of Cutslow, in'the parish of 
Wolvercot, purchased Horsehay farm of J. Patrick, a miller 
of Cassingtou, about the year 1840. The possessor of this 
farm at the time of the inclosure was John Patrick. He is 
proprietor of 71 acres. The other proprietors are 



John Walker 
Thomas Painter 
James Hore 
Samuel Simson 
Mary Havnes 
Mary Ann Lning 
James Parsons 
Westcott Barton Poor U 3 

Trustees of J 

Sandford Poor )*2 

Trustees of i 



A. 

23 
20 
3 
2 
1 




p. 
24 

1 
15 
29 
22 
14 
35 

6 



3 21 



Eobert Ryman 
Henry Cole 
Hall & Co. 
Mary Haynes 
Solomon Jarvis 
John Savery 
George Baker 
Mary Fowler 
James Parsons 
Thomas Brain 
Elizabeth Reeve 



House 

House and Bake House 

"Fox" Public House 

Malt House, &c. 

Cottages 

Ditto 

Ditto 

Ditto 

Ditto 

Ditto 

Ditto 



Reps, of W. Taylor Ditto 



* These at the inclosure in 1796, were allotted to them in lieu of four acres of 
land, dispersed in the open fields of Westcott Barton, which were bought in 
the year 1756, of William Meads and Ann Roberts for the sum of twenty 
pounds, which is stated to be the remainder of the money bequeathed by 
Thomas Giles for the use of the poor of Sandford. See Charity Commissioners* 
Report, 1824, p. 342. 



The bailiff of the Hundred Court, formerly collected for 
the Duke of Marlborough, as Lord Paramount, four shilhngs 
per annum, silver money, which was charged upon certain 
lands in Westcott Barton, and essoign money at the rate of 
two pence a head for suit and service in lieu of attendance 
at Courts, has occasionally been demanded of the inhabi- 
tants. 



WESTCOTT BARTON. 51 



CHAPTER XIL 

ROADS AND HIGHWAYS. 

Young, in his General Survey of the Agriculture of Oxford- 
shire, published for the consideration of the Board of Agri- 
culture in the year 1813, writes at page 324 ; " I remember 
the roads of Oxfordshire forty years ago, when they were in 
a condition formidable to the bones of all who travelled on 
wheels. At that period the cross-roads were impassable but 
with real danger. A noble change has taken place, but 
generally by turnpikes, which cross the country in every 
direction. The parish roads are greatly improved, but are 
still capable of much more. The turnpikes are very good." 
The Act of Parliament was obtained in 1 793-4 for making 
the road which passes from Enstone through Westcott 
Barton to Bicester. Previous to its formation, the way 
seems to have been little, if at all, better than a field-road. 
The river Dome was crossed by means of a ford at the 
south of Westcott Green. I have been told by an old in- 
habitant (W. Bolton), who died in 1866, at the advanced 
age of 86, and who was a carter in his youth, and had often 
gone to market with corn, that none but those who had seen 
them could have any notion of the deep and dangerous 
condition of these ways. Here in Barton, such was the 
state of the road through the village, that the farmers did 
not attempt to convey their corn to Oxford Market by the 
direct way of Hopcroft's Holt Inn, nor to Chipping Norton 
by that through Gagingwell and Church Enstone, but in 
the first case preferred taking a more easy and firmer course 
across the open 'fields by the now Barton Leys Farm, and 
in the direction called the " Beeches,^^ to the tenth mile-stone 
on the Oxford, Deddington, and Adderbury turnpike-road ; 
here they left for the night the waggon with its load, the 
horses being taken off and brought home ; they then, early 



52 MEMORIALS OF 



tlie next morning, started again to draw the corn the rest of 
the journey to the market, whence they returned on the 
third day. In the latter case, they went by the way of 
Norton Gap, leaving Radford on the left, to the twelfth 
milestone on the Woodstock and Chipping Norton turnpike- 
road ; and " none but those who had been with a team 
would believe " (the same person thus expressed himself to 
me) the difficulties of the journeys. The wheels, he said, 
were frequently in ruts to the very nave, and dragged 
without revolving. The punishment to the horses- by falling 
and floundering, the carter with whip and voice urging 
them on ; the breaking of the harness by constant straining 
and irregular jerking, and the injury to the waggon by wear 
and tear, added considerably to the annual expense of farm- 
ing. As a contrast to this now, about one hundred years 
later, the order is quite reversed. The parish roads are 
good, the turnpikes a source of complaint. This difference 
must chiefly be attributed to the introduction of raibOads, 
which connect the market and commercial towns throughout 
the country, and have withdrawn to themselves the passenger 
and goods traffic, rendered the old roads less necessary for 
general purposes, and limited their use very muc^h to merely 
local. The highways have, from an early date, been made 
and maintained by a charge on the parochial rates, which 
have varied according to the circumstances of the neighbour- 
hood through which they were constructed, and their im- 
provement has been of late greatly stimulated by the 
Highway Act, 25 and 26 Vict. ch. 61. The tmiipikes, on 
the other hand, have been made and maintained by the 
trustees or commissioners, who have, from time to time, 
obtained powers under Acts of Parliament to borrow money 
for the purpose of putting certain highways into a more useful 
state, and to levy tolls on horses, cattle, and carriages passing 
along them to keep them efficient, to pay the interest of the 
debt and the salaries and expenses of the officers of manage- 
ment. From the above-mentioned causes, the tolls on many 
roads have greatly diminished, and the surveyors can, with 
difficulty, only provide for the commonest repairs upon them, 
and for rendering them passable for the lighter vehicles 



WESTCOTT BARTON. 53 

even which the modern wants of society have made requi- 
site. A state of things has thus come about which is leading 
to further legislation, and which may, ere long, result in the 
total abolition of turnpike-gates and the burden of the roads' 
maintenance being thrown again in part, if not entirely, upon 
the common liability of the rate-paying, and not the travel- 
ling public. 



CHAPTER XIII. 

THE NEW BRIDGES. 

In the spring of 1867 a subscription was raised in the 
neighbourhood for the purpose of building a bridge of 
sufficient width for carriages to pass to and fro over the 
Dome at the bottom of Pound Lane, the ford being very 
inconvenient for the increased public traffic and travelling 
along the Worton and Deddington road. That styled in 
the parish books '' Westcott Bridge,'^ and stated in 1755 to 
have been repaired with the " great stones drawn from the 
Pound,'^ p. 32, one of which measured no less than nine feet 
in length, three feet in breadth, and ten inches in depth, 
sufficed for foot passengers only, though on extreme occa- 
sions it could be used as a bridle way. The bridge was 
commenced in July of the above-named year, and was com- 
pleted within six weeks, at a cost of about £121. It consists 
of one arch, the span being eight feet wide by four deep. 
The stone was obtained from a field adjoining, on the west. 
Mr. James Hopcroft, of Deddington, was the contractor and 
builder. It was erected under the superintendence of Mr. 
Peter Bennett, the district surveyor of highways, and was 
thus reported upon in Jackson's Oxford Journal of Jan. 4, 
1868 : — "Oxfordshire Epiphany Quarter Sessions — County 
Bridges — The county surveyor's certificate that a new public 
bridge between Middle and Westcott Barton has been erected 



54 MEMORIALS OF 

to his satisfaction having been read, the bridge was declared 
a 'County Bridge/" 

In the autumn of 1868 another bridge over the same 
stream, on the Bicester and Enstone turnpike-road, was 
rebuilt at the expense of the county, the old bridge having 
become unsafe. The stone for this bridge was obtained from 
the same pit as the former. Mr. John Fisher, county sur- 
veyor, was the architect, and W. Grimsley, of Middle Barton, 
the contractor for the same, at £95. 



CHAPTER XIV. 

THE LAND TAX AND OTHER PROPERTY TAXES. 

The land-tax on Westcott Barton amounts to a total of 
£41, which comprises the sums of £20 9s. 2d. assessed and 
exonerated, and £20 10s lOd. assessed and not exonerated. 
The disproportion observable in this tax, levied upon various 
places, arises from the more improved and increasing value 
of land in some counties and parishes over others. The 
assessment is a fixed charge of one shilling in the pound on 
the valuation of the estates taken in the year 1692. It has 
frequently been the subject of legislation, with a view prin- 
cipally to encourage its redemption ; but, aU things con- 
sidered, it does not seem that it would be to the advantage 
of the landowner,'" unless he contemplated building exten- 
sively, whatever pecuniary inducements might be held out 
to him to do so, that he should efi'ect any further redemption 
of the charge. 

As regards the assessment of property in the parish for 
other taxable purposes, that for the Union relief of the poor, 
and the maintenance of highways is £1,525 (1868) ; and as 
regards the Poor-rates, while, by the returns to Parliament 

* See Handy-book of Property Law, by Lord St. Leonards, 2nd edit., Edin. 
and Lond., 1858, p. 60. 



WESTCOTT BARTON. 55 

as stated by Young, the average of the county was 4s. 8d. 
in the pound in 1803 (Youngs Survey, p. 43), the rate of 
Westcott Barton for that year was only 4s. Id., the total 
money raised by Poor-rates within the year ending Easter, 
1803, being £147 8s. 4d. (p. 57), and the rent of land being 
20s an acre. The population at the census of 1801 was 
184. The total money raised by order of the Union Board 
of Guardians within the year ending Michaelmas, 1865, was 
£133 6s. 3id., including the County-rate demand of 
£33 4s. 8d. The census of 1861 returned the parish as 
consisting of 302 persons. Under the new Valuation Act, 
the average rent of land to farm with buildings in Westcott 
Barton at the date 1865 appears to be 30s. 9d. an acre; 
the gross estimated rental of the parish, £1,814. A seven 
years' average charged upon the parish, and ending Lady- 
day, 1868, amounted to £106 18s., which includes the 
Highway-rate. A seven years' average charged for the 
County-rate at the same date was £31 9s. 4d. The Cattle 
Plague demand upon the parish (which itself was not visited 
by the plague) was £38 2s. 6d. 



MISCELLANEOUS OBSERVATIONS. 

BucKLAND, in his volume entitled Curiosities of Natural 
History, London, 1865, pp. 64, 65, says : ''I have heard of 
a species of British rat that has become nearly extinct. Mr. 
Blick, of Islip, informs me that, some years ago, he well 
recollects seeing in Leicestershire and Northamptonshire a 
small species of black water-rat, shaped like a mole, with a 
long body and short legs, and a short, thick head, but this 
rat is now very rare. The fishermen report that the common 
water-rat has killed them. It is reported that they are still 
to be found in Barton Brook, near Woodstock, in Oxford- 
shire.'' 

In the month of March, 1859, a mole of a peculiar 
colour — fallow, inclining to white — was caught in Westcott 



56 MEMORIALS OF 

Old Mead, near Sandford Hedge. Jesse, in his " Gleanings 
in Natural History," relates an anecdote of a mole-catcher 
having once shown him a white, or rather a cream-coloured 
mole, which he had caught near the Eobin Hood Gate in 
Eichmond Park. " These variations,'' he says, " in the 
colour of the mole are extraordinary, and I have never yet 
seen them noticed by any one who has published remarks 
on the animal" (pp. 135, 136, London, 1843). 

A tract of land in this and the adjoining parish of 
Sandford, which was formerly wet and swampy, and much 
frequented by snipes, bears the name of Snipemoor.'"'' It 
extends from the left of the turnpike-road leading from 
Barton to Enstone, as far as the Eadford Field. The 
cultivation of the land consequent upon the inclosure 
of the parish has rendered it useless as feeding ground for 
these birds, and it has of late years been entirely forsaken. 
The field retains now the name only, without the shghtest 
appearance of a snipemoor. 

A field in Barton, called " Friar's Scrubbs," serves to keep 
in remembrance the former connection of the district with 
a Eeligious House. 

Family of Buswell. 

The family of BusweU who for about a century and a half, 
resided in Westcott Barton have entu^ely disappeared from 
the parish, leaving the remains of between forty and fifty of 
their members deposited in the Churchyard. It is now re- 
presented by the Eeverend William Buswell, Eector of 
Widford, Essex ; he is son of John Buswell, of Oxford, Soli- 
citor, who was buried here in 1 824. William Boseville, High 
Sherifi" of Oxfordshire, 1650f was of this family. He was 
of Wadham CoUege in the University of Oxford, and was 
created Doctor of Law, June 30, 1630, 6 Ch. I. Wood in 

* A piece of ground in tKe parisli, called Snitemore. Eawlinson's MSS., c. 
1720, Bodl. Lib. 

t Davenport's Lords Lieutenant and High Sheriffs of Oxfordshire, from 
1086 to 1868. 



WESTCOTT BARTON. 



b1 



his Athense et Fasti Oxonienses, vol. 1, p. 868, fol. Lond. 
1691, says that " Will : Boswell was a learned civilian, and 
was afterwards High Sheriff of Oxfordshire, about 1652 — ■ 
dying unmarried April, 1678 ; aged 79 years ; he was buried 
in All Saint's Church, in the city of Oxford near the grave 
of his father William Boswell, sometimes Alderman of the 
said city." In Ouillim's Display of Heraldry, p. 372, sect. 
V. ch. xix, fol. Lond., 1724, the arms are thus described : 
" Ar, five fusils in fess gules, each charged with a martlet or, 
and in chief three bear's heads erased sa. muzzled of the 
third, granted June 10, 1638, to Dr. William Bos vile and 
Edward his brother, sons of William Bosvile, sometime al- 
derman of Oxford, who was the son of James Bosvile, of 
Yorkshire." In Wood's id., Vol. ii, p. 693, one Thomas 
Bosvile or Boswell, a colonel in the King's Army, was made 
Master of Arts, November 1, 1642, in the Caroline creation 
when Charles the first retired to Oxford after the battle of 
Edgehill. The surname has been spelt at various times 
Boisville, Bosvile, Boswell, Bus well, BuseUe. " There are 
few families in England," says Burke in his Landed Gentry, 
1858," which can be traced by means of authentic evidence 
through so many centuries as that of Bosevile. The sur- 
name is found in England from nearly the time of the con- 
quest, when in all probability it was introduced." 



Family of Marshall. 




In the reign of James I, there was resident on his own 
estate at Little Tew, one Kalph Marshall, from whose sons 



58 MEMORIALS OF 

Ealph and Nicholas, sprang two branches, the elder Ralph 
migrated to Ardley, and this branch became extinct, about 
the middle of the last century ; the property there was 
sold and now belongs to Mrs. Ann Hind ; the younger Ni- 
cholas was settled at Enstone, and at the beginning of the 
eighteenth century his great grandson Nicholas was living 
there, who in 1735 married Esther, the niece of Joseph 
Taylor, of Sandford, owner of one of the portions of the 
manor and advowson of Great Barton, she was sister to 
William Taylor, who in 1746 purchased the estate of the 
Dandridge family at Barton. Their grandson Edward married 
twice, first Priscilla, daughter of Samuel Churchill, who suc- 
ceeded the Buswells in the manor of West cott Barton, she died 
without issue — secondly Mary Anne, daughter of Dr. James 
Burton, Canon of Christ Church, and Bector of Over Wor- 
ton and Lower Wort on. The issue of this marriage was 
three sons and two daughters ; the eldest son Edward, is 
owner of the family estates at Enstone and Sandford, is a 
widower and has issue — the second is the author of these 
Memorials, he married in 1852, Elizabeth Kelson, eldest 
daughter of John Stothert, of Bathwick, of the family of 
Stothert of Cargen, N.B. By her he has issue : 

Jenner Guest, b. March 26, 1861 

Francis Eden, b. July 12, 1863. 

John Mortimer, b. August 18, 1864, d. Nov. 10. 

Elizabeth Stothert. 

Mary Anne Burton. 

Eleanor Katharine. 

Alice Susanna. 



APPENDIX. 



No. 1. 

Pope Nicholas' Taxation op the Living — Nonarum Inquisitiones— 
Valuation in the King's Books — Pensions and Porcions in the 
Abbeys op Eynesham and Osenet — Grants op Land to Oseney — 
Grants op the Advowson and op Lands to Eynesham. 

Taxatio Eccles. P. Nicolai, c. 1292-3, p. 3L 

Lincoln' Diocesis. 

Decanatus de Wodestock. 

Arcliidiaconatus Oxon'. Lincoln' Spirit'. 

Ecclia de Barton' Parva deduct' pens' .£4 6s. 8d. 

Pens' Abb'is de Egnesham in eadem 6s. 8d. 

Beneficia Eccleastica ad xmrc' et infra taxat' quor' possessores 
aliunde non sunt beneficiati, p. 41. 
Archid' Oxon'. 
Wodestock. Ecclia de pva Barton' deduct' pens' ^4 6s. 8d. 

Nonarum Inquisitiones in Curia Scacc. Temp. Eegis Edward IIL 1327 — 1377. 

Decanat. de Wodestock, p. 138. 

Barton P'va. 

Ecclia poch' ejusdm cu omibz suis porconibz taxat' ad iiii^i- vi^- viii<^- cujus 

non' predict' assed' ad liii^- iiii^- et no plus p inquis' jurat' predict' q' gleb' cti 

fen' et al' dec' val' xxviiis- iiii'^- nee sunt ibidin ut dicut catallar' &c. 

Valor Ecclesiasticus 26 Hen. VIII. 1534. 

Westcote Barton, vol. ii., p. 183. 

Drugonus Fever. Kector ibm et Rectoria sua valet p'*- an™- 

£ s. d. 

In omibus decimis oblac' tr' et^aliis pvents p^"- an™- coibus annis vii. x. vii. ob'q' 

Sina. vii. x. vii. ob'q' 

LTnde— In resoluc. antis. Epo_Lincoln. et ejus Ardi^o pr an™- x. vii. ob'q' 

Sm^- x. vii. ob'q' 

et rem' clar' vii. 

Dec'a- ps. xiii. 

Eynesham Monastery,* ih., vol. ii., p. 211. Antbony Dunstone, Abbot. 
Pensions and Porcions in Oxfordshire. 

In the Dioc' of Lincolne. s. d. 

In the pishe churche of Litill Barton vi. viii. 



* Eynesham Monastery, dedicated to St. Mary, was founded for Benedictine Monks by Ethelmar 
Earl of Cornwall. King Edward confirmed it 1005. Robert Bluet, Bishop of Lincoln was a bene- 
factor. Its revenues were valued at £421 168. Id. 



60 APPENDIX. 

Decanat' Oxon' in Com' Oxon' et E'pi Lincoln' Dioc', p. 215. 
Monasterii de Osney^ in com P'.D'.C'.O'. Joli'ne Biu^ton, Abb'te ibm. 
Barton Odonis, Barton Magna, 
Medyll Barton, et Wescot, p. 217. 

^ s. d. J 
Valet in Eeddif tenenc' custum' pT an™- . x. v. ( ,, ••• 

Firma Rectorie et terr' prat' pasc' et pastur' dnic' f "^"^ ^^' ^' ^'^' 

Ibm sic' dimiss' Jolii' Hanwell p. indentnr'. xxviii. ) 

Unde in. 
Ppet' rep's- 
Perpetua Elemosin' distr' inter panpes' pocb' per an™- . x. x 

Deeim solut' Abbat' et Convent' Colcesti'' an^m imppm ex com- / £ 

posicoe . . . . . . . ix. > iiii. 

Decim' solut' Colleg' de Eton pro terr' in Middel Barton p an™. i 

ex compoe . . . . . , . x. -^ 

Et valet clare . . xxviii. x. v. 

The Tithes payable to the Ahbot and Convent of Colchester were given by Eudo 
Sewer, or Steward, in tlie Courts of William Conq., William Erdus, and King 
Henry the First. He was founder of the Abbey dedicated to St. John in the 
year 1096. These tithes in composition became the property of the Dean and 
Chapter of Christ Church,t and, having reverted to the Cro\ATi, formed part of 
the grant by King Henry the Eighth to Leonard Chamberlain and .John Blun- 
dell, of the rectory and premises of Great Barton, otherwise Steeple Barton, 
Barton Odo, Mydle Barton, and Westcote, with the exception of the reprise to 
the College of Eton. 

The Charge to Eton College has relation to an arrangement with the Abbot 
and Convent of Oseney concerning two parts of the tithes of the Lordship of 
Robert Arsic in Little Barton for the payment instead thereof of ten shillings 
annually to the Priory of Cogges, near Witney, by the Abbey of Oseney, which 
claimed the tithes for the Church of Great Barton against the Abbot and Con- 
vent of Fiscamp in Normandy. The Priory was an alien cell founded by the 
monks of Fiscamp, to whom Manasser de Arsic, reserving to himself the Lord- 
ship, had given the Church of Cogges, with certain lands and tithes in divers 
places. (See post.) " After the dissolution of the foreign cells, Henry 
the Sixth, in pursuance of a plan projected by his father, made Cogges a part 
of the demesnes with which he endowed his College of Eton."j Tliis payment 
from Barton has now been extinguished. 



Priory op Cogges. 

(A renewal of a grant of Manasser Arsic to the Abbot and Monks of Fiscamp, 
and a gift of two garbs of tithe at Barton.) 

Num. ii. 

Alia carta ejusdem Manasserii Arsic. (Dugd. Monast, vol. vi., p. 1003.) 

Cartee Antiquse (N. 9.) (In Bibl. Harl. MS. 2044, foL 105. 

Anno ab incarnatione Mciii. Manasserus Arsic renovavit cartam suam quani 
prius Fiscanensi Ecclesise fecerat de rebus suis coram Domino Willielmo 

* Osiiey Monastery, dedicated to St. Mary, was founded for Blacke Canons by Robert, son of 
Nigel d'Oiley, 1139. Its revenues were valued at £755 18s. 6d. — Speed's History of England, B. 9, 
(-h xxi., p. 1074, fol., Loud., 1632 ; Catalogue of Religious Houses mostly suppressed by K. Hen. 
VIII. 

t See Account of Sandford, by Rev. E. Marshall, pp. 58, 62. 

X See History of Witney, by the Rev. Dr. Giles, Lond., J. R. Smith, p. 72-3; also Kennett's 
Faroe. Antiq., vol. i., p. 110. 



APrENDlX. 61 

Abbate tertio, et Monacliis et liominibiis ejusdem, tertio nonas Novembris 
apud Coges et ibi tunc concessit domuni sunni cle Cogis et ecclesiam inde 
faciendam, et eccliam ipsius Villse, cum terra ad earn pertinente et terrani ad 
duas carucas et boscum ad ardencluni et ad omnia opera monachorum et viri- 
darium suum. Dedit ad Berton duas garbas. Hsec omnia dedit volente et 
consentiente uxore sua, et filiis suis. Testes &c. Signum Manasserii. Signum 
Eoberti filii ejus. 

Ecclesia Collegiata de Eton (juxta Windesore in com. Buckingliam). 

Num. xii. 

Carta dicti Henrici Sexti de dotatione ejusdem. 

Dugd. Monast., vol vi., p. 1436, 



A Composition between the Abbot and Convent of Osenet and the 
Abbot and Convent of Fiscamp concerning Tithes in Little 
Barton. 

(From the Oseney Chartulary in the possession of the Dean and Canons of Ch. 

Ch., Oxford.) 

Fol. lix. b. Ix. Compositio inter nos et Monachos de Fiscampo 

de decimis in Parva Bartona. 

Omnibus Christi fidelibus presens scriptum inspecturis. Abbas Eynesham 
et Decanus Oxon. Salutem in Domino sempiternam. Noverit universitas 
vestra nos mandatum Domini Papee in haec verba suscepisse. 

Honorius Episcopu.s ser\n.is servorum Dei dilectis filiis Abbati Eynesham. 
Priori Sanctse Frideswyde et Decano Oxon. Line. Dioc. Salutem et Apostoli- 
cam benedictionem. Dilecti filii Abbas et Conventus Osenei ordinis Sancti 
Augusti nobis conquerendo monstrarunt quod cum Abbas et Conventus de 
Lyra ordinis Sancti Benedicti et quidam alii Hereford, Wigorn, Dioc. et Lin- 
coln Dioc. Su23er decimis et rebus aliis injuriant eisdem. Ideoque discretioni 
vestre per Apostolica scripta mandamus, quatenus convocatis partibus audiatis 
causam et appellatione remota tine debito terminetis quod decreveritis per 
censuram Ecclesiasticam firmiter observari. Testes autem qui fuerint nomi- 
nati si se gratia odio vel timore subtraxerint per censuram eandem appellatione 
cessante cogatis veritati testimonium perhibere. Quod si non omnes hiis 
exequendis potueritis intercesse, duo vestrum ea nichilominus exequantur. 
Dat. Lateran. iiij non. Decemb. Pontificatus nostri anno quinto. 

Harum igitur auctoritate literarum Abbas et Conventus Osenei per procura- 
torem in j^resentia nostra constituti duas partes decimarum Domini ci Eoberti 
Arsic in Parva Bartona asserebant de jure communi ad ecclesiam suam de 
Magna Bartona pertinere, quas ab Abbate de Fiscampo instanter petebant. 
Qui per procuratorem videlicet Eogerum tunc temporis Priorem de Coges 
coram nobis comparuerat Cum igitur idem procurator ad totam causam 
motam super dictis decimis inter prtedictos Abbates et Conventus datus literas 
j)rocuratorias coram nobis in judicio exhibuisset, in quibus continabatur quod 
Abbas et Conventus de Fiscampo ratum essent havituri quicquid in prceclicta 
causa egisset, tandem post multas alterationes communes inter partes lis amica- 
biliter in hunc modum conquievit videlicet quod predictus procurator Abbatis 
et Conventus cle Fiscampo. Abbati et Conventui cle Oseneia predictas decimas 
ad perpetuam firmam concessit et eosdem in corporalem possessionem induxit 
pro decem solidos stirlingorum singulis annis apud Oseneiam Priori de Coges 
ad festum Sancti Michaelis sive infra Octabas ejusdem solvendis. Si non 



62 APPENDIX. 

aliqua decimarnm pertinens ad dictam compositionem venerit alteri parti 
penam viginti solidorum persolvet. Nos igitur banc compositionem ratam 
habentes auctoritate domini Papse earn duximus confirmare. In cujiis rei per- 
petuam memoriam literis procuratoriis Abbatis et Couventus Fiscampi traditis 
Abbati et Conventui Osenei una cum sigillo Prioris de Coges Priore de Sanctae 
Frideswyde ad totam causam literatorie excusato sigilla nostra apposuimus 
Hiis testibus, &c. 



A Grant of Twenty-five Acres of Land to Oseney Abbey, 
BY Thomas Hyde. 

(From the Oseney cbartulary in the possession of tbe Dean and Canons of 
Christ Church, Oxford.) 

Fob XXIII Hyda et Westkote Barton. 

P. 61. Carta Thomse de Hyda de XXV Acris. 

Sciant presentes et futuri quod ego Thomas de Hyda dedi et concessi et 
hac presenti carta mea confirmavi Deo et ecclesie Sancte Marie de Osenei et do- 
mino Kicardo abbati et canonicis ibidem Deo servientibus viginti quinque 
acras terre arabilis cum omnibus suis pertinentiis in campis de Westkote Bar- 
ton, in puram et perpetuam elemosinam. Quatuor duo decern, acre jacent in 
campo aquilonari seilicet in cultura que appellatur Brerfurlong,^ et in campo 
australi super Ramedune tres culturas que continent duodecem acras, et unam 
acram in Moijles Brexh, juxtaterram Petri de Bartona. Tenendum et habendum 
dictis ecclesie et canonicis et eorum successoribus bene et in pace libere et 
quiete in pascuis et pasturis cum libero introitu et exitu per totum campum de 
Westkote Bartona in perpetuum. Concessi et pro me et heredibus meis et meis 
assignatis quod dicti abbas et canonici et eorum successores quieti sint in per- 
petuum de omnimodis curie sectis, auxilio, tallagiis, scutagiis, et de omnibus 
exactionibus et demandis in perpetuum. Et ego Thomas et heredes mei et 
assignati predictas viginti quinque acras cum omnibus pertinentiis suis dictis 
abbati et canonicis et eorum successionibus contra omnes christianos et judaeos 
warantizabimus acquietabimus et defendemus ut puram et perpetuam elemosi- 
nam nostram. Et ut hsec mea donatio et concessio rata sit et stabiUs in perpe- 
tuum huic scripto sigillimi meum apposui. Hiis testibus, &c. 



A Confirmation of the sai^ie. — ihid. 

(Confirmatio Petri de Westkote Bartona de eadem donatione.) 

Noverint universi quod, ego Petrus de Westkote Bartona concessi pro me et 
heredibus meis et meis assignatis et hac presenti carta mea confirmavi Deo et 
ecclesie sancte Marie de Osenei et canonicis in ea Deo servientibus donationem 
quam eis fecit Thomas de Hyda de terris et tenementis que sunt de feodo meo 
in Westkote Bartona. Tenendum et habendum dictis ecclesie et canonicis in 
puram et perpetuam elemosinam sicuti carte quas habent de feofamento ple- 
nius testantur. In cujus rei testimonium huic scripto sigillum meum apposui. 
Hiis testibus, &c. 



* Query Brocfurlong. (J. M.) 



APPENDIX. 63 

A Grant op One Acre by John Le Fre. — Ibid. 

(Carta Johannis Le Fre de Parva Bartona de una Acra.) 

Sciant presentes et futuri quod ego Johannes Le Fre de Westkote Bartona 
dedi concessi et hac present! carta mea confirmavi Deo et ecclesie Sancte Marie 
de Osenei'et canonicis in ea Deo servientibus unam acram terre arahilis in 
campo de Westkote Bartona, cum omnibus suis pertinenciis que quidem acra 
jacet in cultura que vocatur, Doddendenesfielde. Tenendum et habendum dictis 
ecclesie et canonicis in puram et perpetuam elemosinam cum libero introitu et 
exitu per totum campum de Westkote Bartona. Et ego Johannes et heredes 
mei et mei assignati dictam acram cum pertinenciis prefatis ecclesie et canonicis 
contra onmes Christianos et Judeos warantizabimus acquietabimus et defende- 
mus ut puram et perpetuam elemosinam nostram et ut hsec mea donacio et con- 
cessio rata sit et stabilis in perpetuum huic scripto sigillum meum apposui. 
Hiis testibus, &c. 



A Grant of Another Acre by John Le Fre. — Ibid. 

(Carta Johannis Le Fre de alia Acra.) 

Omnibus Christi fidelibus ad quos presens scriptum pervenerit Johannes Le 
Fre de Parva Bartona salutem in Domino. Noverit universitas vestra me de- 
disse concessisse et hac carta mea confirmasse Deo et beate Marie et fratri 
Willelmo de Sutton permissione divina Abbati de Osenei et canonicis ejusdem 
loci ibidem Deo servientibus unam acram terre mee arabilis, cum omnibus 
pertinenciis suis in campis de Parva Bartona pro salute anime mee et animarum 
antecessorum meorum cujus una dimidia acra jacet ex parte orientali del Sondi 
Wey versus Dunestywa juxta terram Willielmi Gefrey et alia dimidia acra 
jacet in eodem campo videlicet in JVoioelonde,'^ jiixta terram ejusdem Willielmi 
Gefrey. Habendum et tenendum illam acram cum pertinenciis suis in puram 
et perpetuam elemosinam pro anima mea et animabus antecessorum meorum 
in perpetuum. Et ego Johannes et heredes mei dictam acram terre cum perti- 
nenciis suis Deo et beate Marie et dicto W. Abbati ac dictis canonicis waran- 
tizabimus acquietabimus et defendemus contra omnes mortales in perpetuum. 
Et ut hsec mea donacio concessio et carte hujus confirmacio rate et stabiles et 
inconcusse in perpetuum permaneant banc cartam sigilli mei impressione cor- 
roboravi. Hiis testibus, &c. 

The date of this grant is circa 1270. 



A Grant of the Advowson of Barton Church to Eynesham 
Abbey, by Alexander de Bartona. 

(From the Eynesham Chartulary in the possession of the Dean and 
Canons of Ch. Ch. Oxford.) 

Fol. XXXV De ecclesia de Bertona. 

No. 117. 

Notum sit omnibus ad quos presens cartam pervenerit quod ego Alexander de 
Bertona, Willielmus filius mens et heres mens dedimus et concessimus monasterio 

* Qceri/ ^Yo(\e]om\e. (J.M.) 



64 APPENDIX. 

Sancte Marie de Egnesliam pro salute animarum mearum et omnium paren- 
tium nostrorum in perpetuam elemosinam ecclesiam de Bertona cum omni- 
bus pertinenciis suis liberam et quietam ab omni consuetudine et exaccione 
seculari assensu et consilio Martini presbyteri ejusdem ecclesie persone. 

Hiis testibus — Willielmo Malet— Godefro presbytero. 

AYaltero scriptore. — Humfrido de Bertona. 

Kicardo de Sancto Johanne. Henrico filio Eanulfi. 



Gkant of a Meadow called MUNECHEMED by 
Helyas de Bertona. — Ibid. 

Fol. xxxviit>- De prato quodam in villa de Bertona. 
No. 135 

Univ arsis sancte matris ecclesie filiis, Helyas de Bertona salutem, sciatis 
me reddidisse et confirmasse Deo et ecclesie Sancte Marie de Egnesliam et 
monachis ejusdem loci pratum unum quod dicitur Munechemed in villa de 
Bertona, quod pater mens Eudo illis quondam donaverat. Et ego nunc 
eis illud concedo cum quodam additamento in superiori parte ejusdem 
prati quare volo et heredibus meis mando et precipio quatenus banc 
elemosinam videlicet pratum, cum meo incremeuto prefati monachi solide et 
quiete et libere absque omni servicio et seculari consuetudine in perpetuum 
possideant. 

Hiis testibus David Arcbidiacano de Bucchingham. — Nigero Presbytero. 
Roberto de Preston. — Radulfo filio Willielmi. 



Grant of MORHEY'S land by Alexander de Berton. 

(Carta Alexandri de Bertona de terra de Morhei. — Ihid.) 

Fol. xxxix 

No. 142. Sciant tam presentes quam futuri quod ego Alexander de 

Bertona dedi concessi ecclesie Sancti Edmundi de Berton terram illam de 
Morhei que fuit Linariuni uxoris mee sicut fossa de novo facta comprehendit in 
perpetuam elemosinam liberam et quietam ab omni servicio et calumpnia, pre- 
sente Willielmo filio meo et annuente. Hiis testibus. G. Priore de Egne- 
sliam et Vincentio Sacrista. — Alano de Estona. — Gilberto fratre ejus. 



Grant of Church land by Alexander de Berton. 
(De terra Ecclie de Berton.) 

Fol. xxxix Ibid. 



No. 143. Sciant tam presentes quani futuri qd ego Alexander de 

Bertona dedi et concessi in perpetuam elemosinam. * -^ * 

(The rest is wanting, the page having been mutilated.) 



APPENDIX. 65 

(Confirmation of the gift of the Church by Hugh Bishop of Lincoln.) 
1184. 30-31,-1 Henry ii. 

The gift of Barton Church, with several others to the Abbey of Eynesham 
was confirmed by Hugh Bishop of Lincoln in these words : — 

Omnibus Christi fidelibus Hugo Lincolniensis Episcopus, &c. 

Confirmamus * "^ * Ex dono Alexandri de Barton. 

Ecclesiam de Barton. 

Kennett Paroc. Antiq. Vol. i, p. 193.— Kef. Reg. Egnes MS. Carta 22. 

Godfrey Abbot occurs in the time of K. Stephen, and also in the reign of 
K. Henry ii. See Dug. Monast. Vol. iii, p. 2. 



APPENDIX. 

No. IL 

Two Terriers of the Rectory. 

The first of these, dated Nov. 1, 1601 ; shows the position of the Parsonage 
lands in the open field, and is a copy of the original return preserved in the 
Registry of the Archdeaconry of the Diocese. 

The other dated December 21, 1675; details a curious valuation of the 
living ; and is also preserved in the Registry of the Archdeaconry. 

No. 1. 

Westcott Barton. The Parsonage Glebe is two yearde lands, whereof xxxiii 
acres arable lying bounded in the common fields as followeth : — 
Tillage. In the South feilde vij acres, viz. — 

2 Two lyinge east and by west, next unto an hedge on the north side 

of tiie farme peace by Wotton downes on the other side. 

3 Three lyinge east and by west, next unto an hedge on the south side . 

and the farme peece of Middle Barton on the other. 
2 Tow lyinge east and by west betweene Collins peece and Midle 

Barton leete, and shuttinge upon Oxforde waie by the farm hedge 

of Steeple Barton. 

In the feilde above the towne on the 
south side xiiij acres, viz. — 
7 Seven acres lyinge east and by west, shuttinge into Woodstocke waie 

and wayed over with oure common waie to Oxforde. 
1 One acre north and by south by the Towne side having a pitt in 

the midst, and lying betwne Westcott and Middle Barton leete. 
1 One acre north and by south, shutting into Norton waie and lying 

betweene the Mill acre and Woodstocke waie. 
1 One acre east and by west beneath longe hedge, and whereupon some 

of the farme peece butteth. 
3 Three acres, east and by west between the same farme peece and Middle 

Barton leete, whereof one acre shutteth upon the end of the greene waie 



66 APPENDIX. 

above the towne ; the other two upon a meere that is between the 
farm peeces. 

1 By Kiddington feilde, one acre shuttinge upon a greate pitt att the 

south end commonlie called the Parson's pitt. 

In the feilde behind Barnell, ix acres, viz : 

2 Tow lyinge betweene the farme peece of Westcott and a Meadow 

grounde belonginge to the farme of Middle Barton, commonlie 
called Jaies' hole. 
7 Seven acres north and by south above the farme peece and shutting 
up to the to]3p of fosthiil. 

3 In the feild above the towne on the north side, three acres which lye 

above crosse gapp east and by west, next unto the farme peece. 

In all xxxiii acres of tillage. 

Medow. — One medow platt behinde Barnell bearinge commonlie one loade of 
haie and bounded in by Barnell hedge and the two farme 
grounds of Westcott and Middle Barton. 

Another medow platt above latforde stone, bearing commonlie three 
or four cockes of haie and lyinge betweene Richarde Boulde of Midle 
Barton and Richarde Hopkins of Westcott. 

Several — An orcharde and a closse adjoininge to the parsonage house. 

Richard Gregson, 

Rector, ibid. 

Andrew T Gibs, his marke. 
Richard X Cumber, his marke. 
WiUm. X Hall, his marke. 
John Gilbert. 
John Cowper. 



No. 2. 



A true and perfect accompt of the just valour of the Rectory of Westcott 
Barton alias Little Barton, in the County and Diocese of Oxon, with all its profits 
and appurtenances exhibited by the Minister and Churchwardens of this said 
Parish, Dec. Ao- R. R. C. R. 1. i. Secdi. 27o- Anno. Dni. 1675. 

In primis two small yard Land of Glebe 

Item, a close unto the House and Homestall be- 
longing ...... 

Item, the Great tithes of 35 yard Land and a half 

Item, the small tithes of the said land 

Item, the Parsonage House, Outhouses, Yards, Or- 
chards, and Gardens, which having never in our 
memory been sett we know not how to value. 

In all £51 90 
Out of which must be deducted for our customary 

dinner, annuallv . . . . . 5 00 

L.ofC. 



^10 00s. 


Od 


4 00 





35 00 





2 00 






APPENDIX. 67 



And for dues to the Parish in entertainment every 
Easter. The which being deducted out of the 
aforesaid sum, the just value of our Rectory 



amounteth to .... . £44 00 



Witness our hands 
William Martin ^ 
Robert Buselle > Churchwardens, 
his mark ) 

lObris. 21 mo. 1675. 

We believe this to be a true account. 

Littleton Osbalston. 

Thos. Chamberlayne. 



Extract from a Terrier taken the 9th day of June, 1805. 

N. B. The Parishioners uphold and repair the Church and Churchyard 
Fences, and the Rector the Chancel. In the Church are a chest — the necessary 
books and vestments for the proper and decent celebration of divine worship — 
and a silver cup and cover. 

Wm. Mason, Curate — Wilm. Hollis, John Young, Jun., Churchwardens. 



APPENDIX. 

No. III. 

Domesday Book. Survey of Will. Conq. 1086. 



Oxfordshire. — VII — Terra Epi Baiocensis. 

Wadard' ten' i hid' et dim' et vi acr' t're in Bertone. T'ra iii car'. N'c in 
diiio ii car' cu i seruo et iiii uiU'i et i bord.' Hnt ii car'. Ibi molin' ii sol' 
et v acr* prati. Valuit xl sol' modo Ix solid'. 

Adam^ ten' x hid' in ead' uilla. T'ra xvi car'. N'c in dnio iiii car' et ix serui 
et xviii uill'i cu v bord'. Hnt xiii car'. Ibi ii molin' de x sol' et ix acr' prati. 
Valuit xii lib', modo xx lib'. 



68 APPENDIX. 

XXIX Terra Eogerii de Iveri. 

IFilVs ten' de R. in Rovesham et in Bertone iii Md' et dim' virg' t're et ii acr'. 
T'ra est vi car'. N'c in dnio iii car' et iii serui et vi niH'i cu viii bord'. Hilt 
iii car'. ILi viii acr' prati. Valuit iii lib' modo c solid'. 

VIII. Terra EpI Lisiacensis. 

Ide Epi ten' Bert ne et Rotroc de eo. Ibi sunt v hide. T'ra viii car'. N'c in 
diiio iii car' et v serui et x uill'i cu iiii bord'. Hnt v car'. Ibi cli acr' prati. 
Pastura i qrent' Ig et dim' lat. Yaluit vii lib'. Has t'ras tenuit Levuin' sic voluit. 



Tenants in Chief under the King, and their under Tenants. 

Bishop of Baieux. v. Odo, Accompanied Ms balf brother William of Nor- 
mandy in 1066, in his expedition against England. After the conquest he was 
remunerated with numerous Lordships, thirty-two of which were in Oxford- 
shire. 1668, he was made Justiciarius Angliae, in which office he was asso- 
ciated with Hugh de Grantmesnil, whose wife was a daughter of Roger de 
Ivery, and William Fitzosbern the Conc^ueror's great counsellor. " Qui pr83 
aliis omnibus conquestorem excitavit ad Angliam excidium exercitusque ejus 
partem tertiam duxit." — Spelman's works, fol. Lond. 1724, p. 165. — Catalog. 
Marescall. Ang, 

Roger de Ivery was son of William de Ivery, who held estates in Normandy. 
He also was a follower of William, and agreed with Robert de Oiley to share 
fortunes together. Robert for his good services was rewarded with the gift 
of Hoke Norton, and divers other manors and lands in six counties, of which 
Barton and Chipping Norton, with a chief seat at Beckley, near Oxford, he 
conveyed agreeably to the arrangement, which was no uncommon one among 
warriors in those times, to Roger de Ivery, whose Barony was first called the 
Barony of Ivery, and was afterwards changed for the name of St. Walery upon 
its grant to Reginald St. Walery. 

Bishop ofLisieux, v. Gislebertus, had manors in Wilts, Dorset, Hertf., Bucks, 
Oxf. 

Wadard, undertenant at the survey held land in Kent, Surrey, Wilts, Dorset, 
Oxf., Warwick, and Lincolnshire — he has obtained special notice in the pictures 
of the Baieux tapestry. 

Adam was undertenant in Kent, Hertf., Oxf. 

WilUlmus. Willielmus. In Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Hants, Berks, Wilts, Dor- 
set, Somerset, Devon, Cornw., Hertf., Bucks, Oxf., Glouc, Wore, Camb., 
Huuts., Northamp., Leicest., Warwick, Staff., Shrops., Chester, inter. Rip. 
and Mersey, Derb., Notting., Yorks., Line, Essex, Norf., Suff. 

Rotroc. — In Oxfordshire only. 



* See Dugdale's Baronage ; Eennett's Faroe. Antiq. ; Speed's History of England ; Ellis 
General Introduction to Domesday Book. 



APPENDIX. 69 

APPENDIX. 

No. IV. 

The Black Book of the Exchequer— Hen. II. 

Liber Niger Parvus Scaccarii, Oxford, 1728, vol. i., p. 177. 

Carta Manasseri Arsic de feodis suis. 

Odo de Berton tenuit in tempore R. H. 
feodum i militis et Hurafridus filius ejus tenet. 



"^ Arsic. 

" The Arsics are stated to have been descended from the old Saxon Earls or 
Aldermen of Oxford." 

After the disgrace of Odo, Bishop of Baieux, King William distributed his 
estates to certain knights, and among those who obtained a portion was William 
de Arsic, father of Manasser, the head of the Barony of Cogges. Robert, his 
descendant in 17th John, was among the rebellious Barons, and his possessions 
in Oxfordshire were seized into the King's hands. Upon the reconciliation, his 
lands were restored, and in 13 Hen. III. he had his discharge. 



APPENDIX. 
No. V. 

The Book of Fiefs, Henry III. and Edward I. 

Testa de Nevill sive Liber Feodorum in Curia Scaccarii Temp. Hen. III. 

and Ed. I. 

Nomina eorum qui tenent feoda militaria in com' Oxon' et de quibus ipsi tenent. 

Feod' Will'i de Kaynes. P. 102. 

Hugo Peyuel ten' in Westcote Barton' f unius m' de f ' ejusdem Will'i. 
Feoda que tenentur in capite de Rege. P. 103. 

Hund' de Wotton'. 

Westcote Barton — Hugo Paynel ten' in Warda feod' unius milit' in eadem 

de Will'o de Kaynes et idem Will's tenet in capite de Rege 

cum una hida terre in Parva Tiwa. 

Feynel and Kaynes. 

For an account of the family of Peynel, Paynel, or Paganel, see Dugdale's 
Baronage and Collinson's Somersetshire, vol. ii., p. 390, Ed. 1791, under Hunts- 
pill, also Lipscomb's History of Buckinghamshire. 

The Paynelles were Lords of the Castelle, and gave their names to the town 
of Newport Pagnell. 

* See Dr, Giles' Histoiy of Witney, p. 71 ; Dug. Bar., vol. i, p. 538. 



70 APPENDIX. 

For an account of tlie Keynes, Kaynes, or Cahaignes, see also Baker's North- 
amptonshire, vol. i., p. 355, Ed. 1820-30, They were owners of large estates 
in Gloucestershire, Dorsetshire, Wiltshire, and Northamptonshire. Ralph, 
surnamed De Caineto, came into England with the Conqueror, and had issue, 
two sons, Ralph and William. Ralph obtained the Fee of Tarent, and William 
had, at the survey, according to Dugdale in his Baronage, Barton, in Hertford- 
shire, and Flore, in Northamptonshire. The former would seem to be in error 
for Oxfordshire. He or his immediate successor was enfeoffed with certain of 
the forfeited or sequestrated possessions of the Bishop of Baieux. One of his 
descendants in the fourth generation, William, died 6 Hen. III., 1221, leaving 
a widow, Lettice, who married, secondly, Ralph Paynell. She died 7 Ed. I., 
1278. 



APPENDIX. 

No. VI. 
Abstract of Pleas, Ed. I. 
Abbreviatio Placiiorum, p. 186. 
Pl'cita coram D'no Rege et Concilio suo, &c.. Anno Regni Regis Edw. II<io- 

Termino Pasch. Anno Sec. Assisa si Edmund' comes Comub' et al' diss' 
Simon em fil' Guidonis de com' pasture sue in Munegrave que pertinet ad lib'uni 
ten' suu in Warmedescumbe, &c. Rot 3 in dorso. 

Assisa, &c., pro tenement' in Westbarton. Oxon. Rot 5 in dorso. 

Edmund Earl of Cornwall. 

Edmund Earl of Cornwall, grandson of King John, was the son and heir of 
Richard King of the Romans, his elder brother, Henry, having been murdered 
in Italy as he was on his way home from the Holy Wars. He succeeded to 
large estates and numerous advowsons in Oxfordshire, A frequent place of 
residence to him and his father was the capital seat of the Honour of St. 
Walery at Beckley, near Oxford. He built and endowed Reuley Abbey, at 
North Oseney, for a Monastery of Cistercian Monks, to offer perpetual prayers 
for the soul of his father. His death occurred Oct, 1, 1300, 28 and 29 Ed, I,, 
at the Convent of Ashrugge, Bucks, which he had founded in 1285."^ 



APPENDIX. 

No. VII, 

Hundred Rolls of Edward I. 

Rotuli Hundredorum, 7 Ed, I.. 1278, vol. ii. 

Com' Oxon'. Hund' de Wotton'. 

Parva Bartona, p. 853. 
Petrus de Barton' tenet in eadem villa feod' uni' milit' de Roberto de Rennes 

* Extracted from Kemiett'.>: Faroe. Antiq., vol. i., in locis. 



APPENDIX. 71 

et idem Robertus de domino Rege in capite de feod' Tarent' et tenet in domi- 
nico ii carrucat' terrse et sect' hundred' de Wotton' de tribus septim' in tres 
septim' et duos advent' ad comitat' per ann'. 

Villani. 

Johannes fir Henr' tenet unam virgatam terrse de eodem in vilenagio pro 
iis et vi<i per annum et ad bydag' vi^ per annum domino Regi et wardsilver 
ob' et qa operabitur et talliabitur et redimet pueros suos ad voluntatem domini. 

Thomas Bihun de JVatere tenet de eodem unam virgat' terrse eodem modo. 

Willelvms Halpeny tenet de eodem unam virgat' terrse eodem modo. 

Eadulphus Wastel tenet de eodem unam virgat' terrse eodem modo. 

Willelmus de Blechesdon' tenet de eodem unam virgat' terras eodem modo. 

Hugo Balliol tenet de eodem unam virgat' terrse eodem modo. 

Thomas de Glanville tenet de eodem unam virgat' terrse eoden modo. 

Reginaldus de Barton' tenet de eodem dimidiam virgat' terrse pro xvd per 
annum operabitur et talliabitur et redimet pueros suos ad voluntatem domini. 

Hawys Spirt tenet de eodem dimidiam virgat' terrse pro xv^ per 

annum operabitur et talliabitur et redimet pueros suos ad voluntatem domini. 

Liheri. 

Johannes fiV Willelmi de Barton' tenet unam by dam terrse pro una libra pipe- 
ris per annum et hydag' xii^ wardsilver ob' et scutag' xl^. 

Idem Johannes tenet unam virgat' terrse et dim' de heredibus Thomse de la 
Putte et idem Johannes reddit Petro de Barton' iiiis et vi^ per annum et tenet 
de dictis heredibus iiii acras terrse pro vd et heredes dicti Thomse fae' sect' cur' 
dicti Petri pro dicto Johanne et scutag' dicto Petro xxxd et domino Regi 
hydag' ixd wardsilver q* domino Regi. 

Ricardus de Scod'^m tenet ii virgat' terrse et tres acras terrse de eodem pro ii 
sol' per annum et sect' hundred' de Wotton' et hydag' vi^ wardsilver qa gcu- 
tag' xxd- 

Thomas fiV Galfridi tenet de eodem unam virgat' terrse pro iiis per annum et 
sect' cur' sue et sect' hundred' de Wotton' et hydag' vi<i- wardsilver qa scutag' 
xxd. 

Walterus Brabesun tenet unam virgat' terrse de predicto Thomse ftl' Galfridi 
et idem Thomas de predicto Petro pro iii sol' eidem Thomse redd' per annum 
et unam par' cirotecarum et scutag' xx^- et hydag vi^ et wardsilver qa et duos 
advent' ad hundred' de Wotton'. 

Willelmus fiV Johannis tenet unam virgat' terrse de Magistro Hospital' Jeru- 
salem' pro iiiis et facit duos advent' per annum apud Goseford et eadem vir- 
gat' terrrse solebat esse gyldabil' ad hundred' de Wotton' et solebat dare hydag' 
vid- et wardsilver et hevesilver domino Regi et solebat duos advent' ad duos 
magn' hundred' de Wotton' et subtaitr per eundem Magistrum sed quo wa- 
ranto nescitur. 

Una virgat' terrce descend' tribus sororihus que tenent de eodem Petro et red- 
dunt eidem iiiis et sect' cur' sue' et sect' hundred' de Wotton' et hydag' vi<i et 
wardsilver qa domino. 

Willelmus de Mannowers tenet de Will'o le Espicer Oxon' pro i<3- per annum 
et pro hydag' vi^ et idem Will' le Espicer reddit Petro de Barton' unam libram 
piperis. 

Petrus de Molendin' tenet unum molendinum et quatuor acras terrse de eodem 
Petro pro x sol' et vi galin' et fac' duos advent' per annum ad magn' hundred' de 
Wotton'. 

Johannes Burg' tenet dimidiam virgat' terrse de eodem pro xii<i per an- 
num et hydag' iii^i et duos advent' ad magn' hundred' de Wotton' et scutag' x^. 



72 . APPENDIX. 

Cotarii. 

Willelmus le Espicer tenet unum cotag' cum tribus acris terras et medieta- 
tem terras Walter! Brabesun pro xvi<i eidem Waltero reddendos per annum et 
idem Walterus reddit dicto Petro pro scutag' vi<i et ad bydag' ii^- 

Willelmus de Ledwelh tenet unum cotag' et unam rodam terras de Willelmo 
de Mannowers et idem Will's reddit dicto Petro unam rosam per annum et 
idem Will's de Ledwelle reddit eidem Petro de Barton' viii^ et ad scutag' 
iiici' et qa et ad hydag' i<i domino Regi. 



APPENDIX. 

No. VIII. 

Grant of a Subsidy to Edward III. 

1327-8, 2 Ed. III., a lay subsidy was granted to tbe King, and collected in 
tbe Hundred of Wootton by Ricbard de Eadbusburg and Jobn le Mire. Tbe 
following were names of taxpayers and tbe several amounts paid : — 





West Bartone. 






s. d. 


Sibillias de Barton . . . . 18 


Robert de Barton 


. 






4 


Jobn de Aula 








2 6 


William ad Molend 








8 


Nicbolas le Mayster 








12 


Alexander Glanville 








8 


Jobn Lye 








8 


Jobn Annste . 








4 


Jobn Person . 








16 


Robert le G'nt 








7 


Jobn le Cooke 








1 6 


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APPENDIX. 
No. IX. 

Grant of Land to Magdalen College, Oxford. 

Concessio Simonis Parret Owino Oglethorpe Presidenti et Scholaribus trium 
acrarum terrae arab: tunc in tennr: Thad: Turner et Thomse Hickes jacent: in 
Westcot Barton et totius terrse suge vocat: le lampe grownde continent : quartam 
partem acrsecum pertinentibus tunc in tenuraThomee Apletre jacent : in South 
Newington 1 Octob: 4 Ed. VI., 1549-50. — Liber B: Mariae Magdalense, Oxon, 
1611, in the possession of the President and Fellows of Mag: Coll:. 

Simon Parret, or Perot, born in 1514, was the third son of Kobert Parret, 
organist of Magdalen College, and instructor of the choristers. This Robert is 
described by Anthony Wood " as an eminent musician of an ancient and 
knightly family of Haroldstone, in Pembrokeshire." Simon married Elizabeth, 
daughter of Edward Love, of Aynhoe, Northamptonshire, Gentleman, whose 
wife, Alice, was third daughter of William and Mary Pope, of Deddington, and 
sister to Sir Thomas Pope, the founder of Trinity College, Oxford. Simon 
became Fellow and Bursar of Magdalen College, a Notary Public, and Steward 
of the Manors of Lady Elizabeth Pope. He was made by Edward VI., leb. 2, 
1559, Bailiff of the Chauntry lands in the county of Oxford. 

The lands alluded to in the grant above noticed are described in the original 
deed (14a) as " formerly given for the maintenance of the lights in the churches 
of Wescote Bartone and South Newnton, and which he (Simon Parret) bought 
of John Dodington, of London, Gentleman, by deed dated 17th Dec. 3, Ed. VI., 
who had them from the Crown by letters patent dated the day previous, 
appointing William Standish and James Massam his attorneys to give seizin." 

[1 am indebted for this communication to the Rev. William Dunn Macray, 
M.A., Chaplain of St. Mary Magdalene College, and author of the Annals of 
the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Rivingtons, 1868.] 

Oiven Oglethori^e, President of Magdalen College, in the University of Oxford, 
in a very troublous period, was a native of Newton Kyme, in Yorkshire.* He 
was made Bishop of Carlisle in 1556, and though much affected towards the 
Church of "Rome, he did not object to put the Crown upon the head of Queen 
Elizabeth Jan. 25, 1559.t The See of Canterbury being vacant, and the other 
bishops refusing the duty, " Oglethorpe is said to have been haunted by remorse 
for his compliance during the short remainder of his life." J On account of his 
refusal to take the Oath of Supremacy, he was deprived of his bishopric. He 
died early in 1560. 



* Camden's Britannia, London, 1695, p. 732. 

t Baker's Chronicle of the Kings of England, fol., Lond., 1660, p. 361. 

X Mackintosh's England, vol. iii., p. 6. Lard. Cab. Cycle. 



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APPENDIX. 
No. X. 

Extract from Particulars for Grants on which the Crown Grants of 
Monastic and other Lands were founded. — Records in the Aug- 
mentation Office. 

A Particular made on a request to purchase by John Ap Richards, dated 
24th May, 3 and 4 Philip and Mary, 1557, of the Rectory of Westcote Barton : — 
Oxon. — Westcote Barton Rectory by the year is of the 

clear yearly value of . . . ^7 

The 10th thereof . . . . 14 

(Signed) Thomas Argal, Deputy Auditor. 

Memorandum. — The King and Queen's Majesties have no lands, rents, or 
tenements in the said Towne of Westcote Barton. 

Examined by me, John Thomson, Auditor. 
With the following endorsement — 
6th July, 1557. "i The Advowson of the Parsonage of Westcote Barton, sold to 
Rated for > John Coper at two years' purchase, amounted to ,£14. 
John Coper. ) By me, John Thomson. 

Note. — The original grant to which this statement refers has not been 
found ; but as John Cupper presented to the rectory on July 6th, 1566, though 
another patron appears from the bishop's registers to have presented to the 
rectory upon the institution of William Webb, Aug. 12, 1557, it seems that the 
former had secured the advowson from the Crown, and b}" some arrangement 
which I have not been able to discover, the first presentaticr after the sale was 
allowed to the latter, who was John Raynsford, c»f Wyllcott. 



CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS. 

Page 2, line 5, in sandy, substitute a capital S. 
„ 4, line 18, expunge the second as. 

'„ 5, „ 21, /or at read in ; and in line 23, a/ier Calendar, add a full point. 
„ 5, „ 24 and 25, for Manor Extent read Maner' Extent'. 
„ 5, „ 29, after Villare add Anglicanum. 
„ 9, „ 3 and 4, for chain read chains. 
„ 10, „ 3 and 4, for Wake Feast read Wake and Feast. 
„ 11, in note f, for he read the ; and for token read Men. 
„ 13, line 14, /or a semicolon substitute a full point, and begin next paragraph 

with a capital T ; and in note J, for xii read x. 
„ 15, „ 20, /or Valer rea(i Valor. 
„ 20, „ 16, /or vicimis read vicinis. 
„ 45, „ 12, after Great Barton add Mr. Taylor purchased his share from 

Mrs. James, of Fimnere, the representative of Edw. and Eliz. 

Hogan. (See Account of Sandford, by Rev. E. Marshall, p. 

22 and Addenda.) 



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